The Tools You Need to Work on Your Mountain Bike
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, we talk about essential bike tools for setting up your home work shop. We also discuss nice-to-have bike tools and tools which no one really needs to own. In addition, we offer tips for storing tools, recommended shop supplies, and resources for learning how to wrench at home.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab. |
| 0:08.3 | Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this happy meal. |
| 0:16.3 | Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last. |
| 0:20.2 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | My name is Jeff, and today Aaron and Greg and I are going to be talking about bike tools. |
| 0:29.0 | The Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle once said that man is a tool-using animal. |
| 0:34.7 | Without tools, he is nothing. With tools, he is all. So in this episode, |
| 0:39.0 | we're going to lay out the essential mountain bike tools everyone should own, how to choose |
| 0:43.5 | quality tools, tips for setting up your own workspace, and we're going to share some resources |
| 0:48.8 | for improving your wrench skills. So, Aaron, I know you're a big believer in owning a good collection of mountain bike tools. |
| 0:55.9 | Why is it important to build up such a collection? Well, a lot of it comes down to self-sufficiency, |
| 1:01.3 | which is a principle we talk a lot about here at single tracks. Mountain biking in general, |
| 1:06.6 | you should learn to be self-sufficient. You need to have enough food and water out on the trail. |
| 1:11.4 | You need to know how to fix mechanicals when they arise on the trail so you can get back to |
| 1:17.5 | civilization, as we talked about in our backcountry survival episode recently. |
| 1:23.2 | But yeah, so learning how to work on your bike in your own shop, it gives you a better |
| 1:27.0 | understanding of how your components work. |
| 1:29.6 | It's going to allow you to diagnose problems better and catch minor issues before they become major problems. |
| 1:36.0 | So even if you're not doing every little bit of work on your bike yourself, you'll have a better idea when you go into the bike shop of what's going |
| 1:45.1 | wrong with your bike and you can explain to them what you think the issue is. And of course, |
| 1:51.0 | what you learn in the shop is going to help you out on the trail when problems do arise and |
| 1:56.3 | it increases your McGiver ability, I would say. Another part of it is doing repairs at home is going |
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