Bicycle Tools

Various tools by function. Hub, rim and tire tools. Metal and glass tire levers. Tire levers are used for removing the tires from the rim, many times for changing the inner tube. Glass levers are more prone to breakage, metal ones damage tubes or tires more easily.

Double-ended cone wrenches, 13-16mm. Cone wrenches spanners are wanted to dismantle and adjust the hub bearings. Spoke wrenches are used for tensioning the spokes of a wheel. Tensiometer or spoke tension meter is used to measure the tension in spokes. Tire Bead Jack should be used to install tires on rims, mostly when the tire-rim combination is tight.

Dishing gauge is used to measure the dish of a wheel. Wheel truing stand is used to measure the side to side and radial trueness of a wheel's rim and facilitate truing it. Cable and housing cutters. Cable tensioning tool to hold the cables taut while being worked on. Third paw or 3rd paw to clamp brake pads against rim during adjustment.

Disk straightening tool. A head tube facing and reaming tool is a paw tool used to motor the head tube to make sure that correct headset bearing alignment. The tool usually has separate and interchangeable facing and reaming cutters which can vary widely with the many available headset standards. A headset bearing cup press is a bearing press specifically for pressing in interference-fit headset cups. Most sets return with special stepped bushings or adapters that contact the cups, preventing damage when installed.

Chris King also make proprietary adapters for installing their headsets. A crown race cutting tool is a paw tool used to counter-ream and face the base regarding the fork column at the crown known as the crown race seat. A lone cutter is usually used to perform most aspects regarding the cutting operation. The process machines the crown race seat to be precisely perpendicular to the steering column axis and regarding the correct press-fit diameter, ensuring the correct alignment regarding the crown race with the decreased headset bearing. A crown race puller or remover is a tool for removing the headset crown race.

There exists different tools on the market ranging from fewer than $100 USD to multiple hundreds of dollars. Headset wrenches are oversized 32 36mm flat open-end wrenches for tightening headset glasses and lock nuts on threaded steering tubes. Should be drafted to contact 7 sides of an 8 sided 8-point lock nut. Hex or Allen keys are used on the different hex bolts on the stem, top cap and handlebars. A star-nut setter is used to set the star-nut inside regarding the fork steering column for threadless headsets.

Drivetrain and bottom bracket tools. Track sprockets are typically attached and removed from the hub by screwing them with a chain whip. This tool also has a lockring spanner for securing a reverse threaded lockring against the sprocket. Bottom bracket wrench for newer bottom bracket styles. A chain tool or chain splitter is used to 'break' a chain, sequential to remove it from a bicycle or remove links, or to place a chain return together.

A crank extractor is used to pull the crank off the bottom bracket spindle. A pedal wrench removes the pedals from the bicycle. A pin spanner is used on adjustable bottom brackets. Note that ISIS Drive bottom brackets need a separate tool look below. Various bottom bracket wrenches for newer bottom bracket styles for example internally splined by ISIS, Shimano, FSA, and RaceFace; externally notched by Campagnolo Veloce, Xenon, Mirage, Daytona and Avanti; and externally mounted by Shimano.

Bottom bracket taps and facing tools are tools used to tap or chase the threads within the bottom bracket shell and face the outside edges, respectively. A lone tool shall sometimes handle most jobs, and is usually suitable for light-duty bicycle shop use. A separate tap set and facing set is usually employed by frame builders where more robust tooling that is more frequently used is needed. Most tap sets and facing sets are intended for frame finishing work subsequent to welding and or or brazing, as the frame tubes tend to deform slightly subsequent to this process, and for cleaning out any weld splatter or paint from the bottom bracket threads. A bottom bracket tap set should be used to tap new threads in a blank bottom bracket shell or for converting ISO threads to larger diameter Italian, but the process is slow and cumbersome and mostly hard on most taps, particularly when tapping hard aluminum or titanium.

A chain whip and lock-ring remover are used for changing derailleur cassettes. Various freewheel removers are used to unscrew freewheels from hubs. A derailleur alignment gauge is used to straighten rear derailleur hangers. Work stand painted black and blue holding a bicycle frame by its fork dropouts and bottom bracket shell. Various devices have been devised to hold a bicycle still to facilitate working on it, and they can be usually called stands.

Stands shall clamp a component regarding the bike, for example the seatpost, seat tube, or top tube, or they shall basically give a surface on which a bicycle shall rest with some security. Stands, mostly those that clamp to a bike, shall give a means of repositioning a bicycle sequential to conveniently locate the component being worked on. Stands should be neither portable light and collapsible or fixed heavy, usually attached to the floor, wall, or bench. Care should be taken with clamping stands not to clamp a component regarding the bicycle that cannot withstand the pressure, for example the tubes of many aluminum or carbon fiber frames, and non-cylindrical carbon fiber seatposts. An auxiliary bracket should be used with clamping stands to hold the steering mechanism from rotating.

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