Your favourite bike tool.

[ringo]

Al...

 

[Whatleymeister]

Al...

Brilliant!

 

[Jussa]

Some great tools in the listing, all worthy of a mention, for me, its the following;

NORBAR Torque Wrench - Working for HM Finest Flying Club i know the importance of applying a Torque loading onto specific components. Gone are the days of measuring tightness by how many 'White Knuckles' one had, followed by the phrase "It will do a trip!!!"

Running PACE Forks on my Orange's and also Magura's on my Kona & Proflex all have specific Torque settings which prevent Overtightening and the risk of further damage, but also ensuring that it is tight enough so as not to fail when speeding along your favourite 'Black route'

I do confess for some parts i still do apply the 'White Knuckle' technique

 

[Rampage]

At the moment my Unior crown race remover. Money very well spent.

Is that a sort of small fork looking jasper, with square sides, that you slot over the crown race from below and sort of whack the end of it, and the sides tape so they grip the crown race?

Yep thats pretty much the one IIRC. I saw one in a mtb maintenance manual I was glancing over the other day.

I was wondering about these - I've seen this type - I assume it's this and the other kind, like this one - and kinda wondered how they compare?

I read some comments, somewhere, about the Cyclus tool sometimes not working on certain types of forks? But otherwise, does look easier to use, with less chance of damaging something than the other one - but having not used either, I'm making assumptions, there.

How does the first one work?

 

[Neil]

At the moment my Unior crown race remover. Money very well spent.

Is that a sort of small fork looking jasper, with square sides, that you slot over the crown race from below and sort of whack the end of it, and the sides tape so they grip the crown race?

Yep thats pretty much the one IIRC. I saw one in a mtb maintenance manual I was glancing over the other day.

I was wondering about these - I've seen this type - I assume it's this and the other kind, like this one - and kinda wondered how they compare?

I read some comments, somewhere, about the Cyclus tool sometimes not working on certain types of forks? But otherwise, does look easier to use, with less chance of damaging something than the other one - but having not used either, I'm making assumptions, there.

How does the first one work?

You up-end your forks and put the tool and it's "fork" legs in opposite orientation to the fork legs, and then the inside of the tool's legs, and their layered profile should lock onto the crown race. Then you just wallop the top of the tool with something heavy - sorry forgot myself for a second, you get a mallet and using controlled percussive maintenance, you work the crown race down / up the steerer until it's free.

 

[Rampage]

Oh I see now, that's quite a good idea.

 

[Neil]

Oh I see now, that's quite a good idea.

I think so too - caveat, though: I've never actually used one - so the theory looks good.

Apparently there are some fork crowns that it won't work with, but for normal-ish forks should be OK - given they're much the same price as the other type of crown race removal tool, I'm inclined to get one - I was just hoping somebody who's actually got one already would splurge their findings.

 

[S-M]

My new favorite tool is my man-cave floor, as i used it yesterday to remove 2 steerers, one from a RockShox Psylo, and the other from a Marzocchi Z1




Grab forks in hand, point steerer tube towards floor, ram downwards until steerer pops out, genius!

 

[dbmtb]

At the moment my Unior crown race remover. Money very well spent.

Is that a sort of small fork looking jasper, with square sides, that you slot over the crown race from below and sort of whack the end of it, and the sides tape so they grip the crown race?

No. It's a lot bigger. A LOT.


Will do remove any crown race from anything - even the ones you can't get to as the fork crown is wider than then the crown race.
It does the same as the IceToolz version - just with a proper puller.

But it's not cheap.

 

[dbmtb]

One of my most favourite tools at the moment is the Mavic chamfering tool. But it's not really very useful 8D.