Category: Bike maintenance

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Cool Tool Tuesday #9: The best setup and bleeding tools for hydraulic disc brakes
Everything you wanted to know about servicing your hydraulic disc brakes the pro way.

How not to wash your bike, starring Peter Sagan
Pressure washing a bike: yay or nay?

Cool Tool Tuesday #8: The best tools for installing hydraulic disc brakes
The go-to tools for caliper bolts, rotors, routing and cutting hoses, and more.

Cool Tool Tuesday #7: Fresh tools from the Sea Otter Classic
New tools from Park Tool, Wolf Tooth, Altangle, Topeak, PrestaCycle and more.

Cool Tool Tuesday #6: How to store and organise your tools
Like Marie Kondo, but for bike nerds.

Cool Tool Tuesday #5: 25 new bike tools for 2022, part two
Perhaps this will inspire #newtoolday for you.

Cool Tool Tuesday #4: Building a Cycling Tool Kit – the bicycle-specific basics
A look at the cycle-specific tools that form the basis of a workshop or well-equipped toolbox.

Cool Tool Tuesday #3: Building a cycling tool kit – the foundations
Just a few tools y’all should own.

Cool Tool Tuesday #2: Your complete guide to hex keys
A deep dive on the true must-have tool and the 16 or so different styles that exist.

Cool Tool Tuesday #1: Ratcheting into gear
A series for current and future tool nerds.

The best derailleur hanger alignment tool: 9 tested
Once thought to be only for workshop use, a hanger gauge is now a commonly needed tool to achieve perfect shifting.

Review: The best bicycle tyre inflators to use with an air compressor
Got an air compressor? Learn what inflator is best with eight reviewed plus some DIY ideas.