My DIY breaker bar was a ratchet with an aluminum tube over it about 18 inches long, was a leg from some old lawn furniture.
Worked a charm, used it to rebuild the engine in my wife's car😉
When I was done, just tossed the tube in the recycle bin.

** Semi-related hot tip : poke new shifter / brake cable ends into a tube of super glue to stop them from fraying when installing and cutting .
Also try not to cut small bits of cable as they will inevitably unwind, become lodged in your foot and make it very painful to walk and/or exist.

As a car guy that's got back into tinkering with bikes again (I don't ride them much, I just like wrenching on them) I cringe when I see the lack of certain tools. I'd go straight to the rattle gun for a stuck bottom bracket 🤣

Impact driver FTW! (It worked for me, when a breaker bar didn't)

A lot would have to change in my life to get me to London by May. First off, I don't have a passport. lol

Lovely sticker organizer!

Loved this one. I know I'm late to the party, but keep them coming.

The right tools for the job is a must, some great ideas there Craig!

When my farther in law passed my mother in law told me to checkout the tool shed for anything i wanted. 2 breaker bars and a load old odd drill bits came home that day. I did spent the day organising all the odd imperial and metric sockets and spanners

Bleeding Magura brakes is a bit tricky but not impossible either. Probably similar to SRAM/AVID brakes. I use them on a cargo bike and especially the front brake has been rather difficult to bleed. It took me a bit of time but they also work as they should and I guess having a very long hydraulic line is more finicky with all manufacturers. But I would agree, so far, the Shimanos have been the most easy brakes to bleed.

I got a BB Tap quite cheap a while back, don’t know how I lived without it!
Yeah the long breaker bars are great but I still go with tool bolted to the bike and spanner and long pole, out of prob 70ish bikes I have only not been able to get out about 3.

I bought a cheapish bleed kit years ago and it's still going strong except for losing the funnel o-ring seal (I think it got confused with the bleed port o-ring at some point) but that was easily replaced. One word of advice, if you work on a lot of different brakes its probably worth having a mineral oil and a DOT fluid bleed kit to avoid cross-contamination. I've heard that even if you are meticulous about cleaning, the plastics can absorb the different hydraulic fluids.

A headset press and cup removal tool is essential when you're working on bikes, also a crown race removal tool. I own a work stand I bought from decathlon about 20 years ago, the only thing that's broken from it is the rod that helps the clamp stay closed, but I have a temporary solution to it for now.

Thanks a great help.thank you

I put a long tube over my wrench and all I got was the tool strip.. I have one with the threaded part...  broke the tool first go.

Nishiki Rockhound won.. no CBBO entry

my current build is Hydraulic brakes. same scenario..

we call those Dead Blow Hammers

impact tools.. not so much the impact.. but the bits..  all the other chew out in cheap bike tool kits.

but the little ratchets are so killer..  I have one that came in an IKEA package that ratchets one way and you flip the bit.. so I carry a 32 bit carrier with an extension driver to flip within it.

and a cheap Hex L wrench.. is it 6mm? I have Skewers that size... with the long side having a Phillips head..

you can adjust B and H/L on the fly and tighten any loose bottle cages,

presta- schrader compatible mini pumps.

a hanger Alignment tool.. requirement.

spoke tools..  every single disc wheel I've owned needed the dish adjusted towards the short spokes you only find out when you put massive tires on.  now I'm waiting on 268 mm non drive side spokes for my 27.5 rear..  anodized red.. so every second spoke will be red or black

I use one chain tool.. the same tool I use to cut housings.  because I'm never gonna put the pin back in...  

I disagree on the workstand.  I'd say get a truing setup first..


so...   housing cutter.. Ikea tools with impact bits. hanger algnment tool.. BB and crank remover tool (which also is the same size as wheelnuts and hubs)  spoke tools.  perhaps a good Torch

I've been enamored with redoing these atb's lately it's only been about 6 months I started the hobby. My advice is buy a lot of cables and housings.  WD-40 and tools. Then think about the pretty parts. If it's serviceable parts are the last thing because you might go backwards digging into one before you're ready.

Digital luggage scale for bikes! So much cheaper that a parktool version, who needs an expensive one when youll use it rarelly as a viewer of this channel but its still very usefull even as a partypacer to know the weight

Don't think I'll make the cruise this time... Flights from Louisville Kentucky are crazy! 😂😂 I could buy a ton of crusty bikes at these prices!

any girls here loving these videos? :))

Sadly Lifeline tools bit the dust as they were a CRC/Wiggle brand. Shame as I really rated them too. Hope someone resurrects them.