10 Bike Tools that aren't screwdrivers

Welcome back to Burn Peak I'm Seth and this is a fictional pedal. It is a pedal that you can use on your

bike

when you don't have a pedal. It's one of the many

bike

tools

we'll review today. I thought it would be interesting to add all of this into one video. If you watch my other videos, you've probably seen a lot of these

tools

, but we're still going to do something a little different today, but pretty much the same. I was saying that the first strange tool is a dummy pedal, you just put it on the crank, use your thumb to screw it on and then you can pedal the bike and you might think why anyone would need something like this and the reason is many.

Most of the high end bikes don't come with pedals because people want to use the pedal they want when a bike mechanic puts the bike together he needs to pedal the bike now, to screw on a normal pedal he has to play with an allen wrench with this one. you can do with a thumb in a moment and when you're working in a high production bike shop, time is money and that's why someone would spend their money on a fake pedal, so besides fake pedals, they actually make. Fake rear wheels or fake hubs. I'll show you what this is for outside at the bike wash station, especially when you're washing a bike and you want to take the wheels off because they're much easier to clean.

I also want to clean the transmission and believe it or not, part of that involves pedaling. The fake hub is placed in place of the rear wheel so you can wash the bike. Now it's also used for things other than bike washing, but that's what I use mine for. for most of the time and you can see that this little roller here actually slides along the axles so you can change gears and move the derailleur, it doesn't look like something you would use, but if you wash bikes or work on them without the wheels on enough, it's a pretty good tool, so the next tool is a chain cleaner, it's made to clean the chain while it's on the bike and the model number is cm 5.2, so I guess cm means "chain massager", it opens up and you have this series of brushes inside at the top and bottom, you fill it with chain cleaning fluid and then you put the chain inside, you close this and you pedal your bike back and the fluid in the chain it is cleaned. works great, the chain cleaner, there's really not much more to say about it, it's the best way to clean the chain.

I love using it, so something that even a casual bike mechanic will know is spoke wrenches that fit perfectly around the spoke nipple and There are different sizes and you can twist them, but what you probably didn't know is that your multitool most likely have spoke wrenches, a lot of people don't notice them, this is a brothers f-15 crank, it's one of my favorite multitools and on the chain tool, you take it out, there are these little notches here and there are numbers zero one two three, that It is the spoke nipple gauge that can rotate, it works like a normal spoke wrench, you can just snap it on. twist it and twist it, other multi tools have it here, here's another one right on the chain tool.

I have used these spoke wrenches on the trail to get people back on the bike because they bent the wheel too much and the bike was leaning and banging and I was able to straighten the wheel enough to take them back home, so they are very useful when you're in the way, so if you didn't know, grab your multitool, take a look at it and you'll see. If you can find some spoke wrenches, while we're talking about bike spokes this is a tm1 spoke tension gauge, I guess that means tension gauge one when the wheel makers are building wheels or when you're doing a good grinding job.

On your wheel you want to make sure all the spokes have a very similar tension or whatever the manufacturer recommends, this goes around the spoke and then whatever this little arrow points to is the spoke tension, that doesn't tell you. It's going to be very interesting unless you build The wheels by feel probably aren't as accurate compared to something like this very important tool. One of the best things about disc brakes on mountain bikes is that if the wheels are a little out of control, the brakes will still work perfectly fine as long as the rotor is still straight and sometimes it isn't, sometimes it hits against something when you are loading or unloading your car, you crash your bike and for that we have the truest dt2 disc two, you can grab the disc brake in several different ways if it is some kind of deformation, you can try to straighten it with this little one, if it is a big curve, you can put it here and move it.

The only way I know how to make true disc brakes is to look inside the brake caliper and instead of grabbing it with pliers or sticking a screwdriver in here and trying to bend it, this is a little more precise and is designed specifically so that, while riding a bike, you wear out the chain and if your chain wears out a lot. It's actually going to wear out all the other parts, so you want to check it to see how worn it actually is. The chain checker, just insert it here, put a little bit of tension here and then this little probe here will do it. tell you how worn it is if it does this your chain is fine if you can push it into your chain then it is actually worn out.

No, I don't use this. I just change my chain when it looks bad, but if you're a racer, if you put a lot of miles on your bike and you always wonder about your chain, this is a really good way to check it, so it's really strange: a cup for headphones. removal tool, I have had this for years, I use it a lot when I had a bmx bike with headset cups that you have to press the bearings in, they would actually press the frame and if you have to take them out you would basically be taking a screwdriver and hammering it and it wasn't good for business so it was made to go up through the head tube and then when you pushed it down it was on top of the headset cup and then you hit it. with a hammer and take it out again, I think we on the channel have only used this tool once, but it's still very useful, so the next tool, when it first came out, I made fun of it, criticized it and said that now It was expensive.

I have it and it's in tatters. I use it every time I install tires. It is the wh1 which means wheel support. Put it in your vise. Take this little guy. You put it on one of these and then slide your wheel over it. you hold it and the reason you want to use it is to install tubeless tires so you have to have the wheel upright and open the tire so you can pour sealant on it or so you can mount the bead on it. having it secure at eye level on the bench is actually very useful if you own a bike shop or make a lot of tyres, this is a life saver, the wheel holder sounds ridiculous, something that holds the wheel but it is incredibly useful.

You can see here on my bike there is a hole here in the frame, on a lot of bikes you have to run cables through the frame, they do this to make it look a little neater and on this bike there are tubes inside the frame that guide the cables , but there are some bikes that don't have that and for that I use the internal routing tool, it's a bunch of little cables with magnets and I'll show you how it works. I only used this in a video very recently and it was on an alloy bike, aluminum is a non-ferrous metal so magnets don't stick to it.

It would also be the same for a carbon bike, so you have this cable with a very narrow neodymium magnet on the end and you have this. tool here that sticks to it, insert this into the frame and then use this to guide it across the bike. You can move this wire to the other opening in the box and then pull it out and then you can tape the wire. On the other end of this, now a lot of people say, "Well, why don't you just use the old cable and then tie it to it and fish it out good?

If it's a new bike, it won't have an old cable to do that, so you need to use the internal cable routing tool. This tool here is known as third hand and is used as your third hand when you do anything that involves a cable, whether it's a derailleur or cable brakes a cable puller. What it does is it pulls on it and it holds the cable right here and it puts tension on it and the reason you would want to use this is because when you try to pull on a cable and use a tool to tighten it Whatever is holding it is very, very cumbersome. and difficult, this makes the job much easier, so the cable puller or a third hand is a tool that many home bike mechanics don't really have.

I rarely see people with this and it is a very useful necessary tool. and not very well known, so the next product I had to buy for this video I had never used before and I suspect I never will again. It's called a knobby knife and is made for cutting tire knobs. I used one before so I'm going to use it now and try to explain as best I can what it does so that as you use the tire it wears down and the knobs that have sharp edges get damaged. of rounded I'm going to try to find a knob that's a little rounded and let's fix it.

You can see here these knobs up here, let's say I want to sharpen the edge of that. I'm going to very carefully go down to the tire knob and cut it to do this on each and every tire knob. That's a lot, it's a lot of work. I suspect that runners who are really serious about racing could probably do better. their times by training more instead of spending an entire weekend cutting the knobs on their tires and whatever they gain in performance, they are going to lose in lung capacity from all the fumes that come out of this now, that being said, this tire knob It is very sharp. means it actually came out pretty good for the first time this exists this exists a tire knob cutter to square up tire knobs the idea is that you can extend the life of a tire you can fix a knob that isn't exactly perfect or if you want make some kind of special tread pattern, like let's say you want to cut every third knob.

I don't know, I don't get to that level of riding, but for those who do, the knobby knife is a tool that exists and people use it, so if you work on bikes a lot or if you watch this channel, you've probably already seen a lot of those tools, but many people outside the world of cycling like to listen to our activity through these videos, so if you are one of those people, I hope you found it interesting, I hope you liked it, not even We've scratched the surface of unique bike tools, so if you want to see another video like this, let me know and thanks for riding with me today.

See you next time the new thing from the factories burns this thing down, they didn't provide me with any support so I use a can so it doesn't burn my work table.