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They can be used to press bottom-bracket bearings and hub cartridges into place, keeping everything rolling smoothly without the massive shop bills. On the expensive side, a bearing press and requisite drifts will pay for themselves in 1-2 uses if you’re swapping out pivot cartridges. There are a handful of great options for this tool from Pedros, Unior, and Pro, all for somewhere around $40.Ĭable and housing swaps at a lot of bike shops cost roughly $20, so this purchase will pay for itself rather quickly. It’s great for cable and housing and I also use it to cut brake hoses, cleaning up the end with a razor if needed. The Park Cable and Housing Cutter above has been hard at work for more than a decade and it still creates a flawless snip. Cable cutterĪs mentioned above, a precise cable cutter will undoubtedly save a purse-load of scrilla.
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At an average cost of around $30 per wheel build, some of us might be better off paying a pro to lace spokes and make things round while saving money on most of the other bike fixes.īelow are some examples of tools that quickly pay for themselves, allowing you to save heaps of cash for more fun things. Conversely, a pro-level wheel truing stand can cost heaps of money, and the task of building and truing wheels requires a level of patience and precision that not everyone possesses. For example, a proper pair of cable cutters will allow you to refresh a few hundred drivetrains in their lifetime, and just a couple of those cable swaps would cost the same as the tool if you pay someone else to do the work. If you’ve got to buy the wood, then you can probably count on not really saving any money over a cheap stand.While most home mechanic tools will eventually reduce your bill at the local bike shop, some cut that number more effectively than others. If you’ve got the wood sitting around, it might be just the thing. This design is a freestanding wooden bike repair stand that ends up looking a bit like a miniature gallows. I found a reference to it in various search engines, but the site was gone. This repair stand reminds me of the old hack for using your hitch-mounted bike rack on your car as a makeshift repair stand. This is a really simple design for another bench-mounted bike repair stand and might be just the thing if you’ve got a workbench. The base of the stand uses the same metal flange as used on the first repair stand in this post. The clamp looks a little overbuilt, though I bet you could use one of the PVC clamps from above without much ill effect. This fine-looking pipe-based bike repair stand uses simple and easily obtainable raw materials.
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This thing looks like a medieval torture device. This heavy-duty bike repair stand is nothing to sneeze at, but if you’ve got the gear and the welding chops then get after it. This one uses a bit of plumbing polyurethane in place of the foam pipe insulation of the previous builds. You’ll need a workbench and some pipe clamps. This wooden bench-mounted repair stand looks like a straightforward build.
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The bike’s bottom bracket just rests on the stand.īe sure and read through the comments before beginning this build, since you may require a repair stand with a bit more stability. This is a pretty clever design that uses no clamp to hold the bike in place. It’s a free-standing PVC bike repair stand. Here’s the second design from Instructables. The Alternate PVC Bike Repair Stand Option The overall design is super simple and ought to be just the thing if you’ve got a workbench with a little extra room. The clamp is very similar to the first version, with a PVC ‘T’ cut in half and reassembled with hinges and a clasp. This one is a really sweet-looking bench-mounted repair stand, made of PVC. It’s nice because it uses inexpensive standard hardware and the main body of the stand is easily moved from location to location, provided you’ve got mounts already installed.Īs usual, Instructables has some nicely designed bike repair stands. So I’m thinking that this post-mounted repair stand (it is an old link, no more detailed pictures, sorry) might be just the thing for me such as how I write my essay. However, I do have 4×4 posts in both the carport and over near the hose. I’ve got a great covered area in my carport, but no easy hose access for washing. Something that I can put up and take down quickly, but also something that can move around a bit. So I’m thinking of building a movable repair stand. The shop area has a workbench, but there’s just not much room to move. I don’t have a real garage, just a carport with a small attached shop area. Lately, I’ve been eyeballing some of the best bicycle repair stands and contemplating building my own.