Bike Tools

Bike tools enable you to repair and service your bike. Whether you are a budding home mechanic with a complete home workshop or a just a casual cyclists who needs to fix a puncture, you will need bike tools.

Ice Toolz and Park Tools are companies that specialize in manufacturing bicycle tools. There are specialty bike tools for working on every part of your bike; adjusting and aligning derailleurs, removing and fitting bottom brackets, chain tools for removing and repairing the chain, chain whips and freewheel removers for your cassette, tyre levers for changing a tyre or tube, allen keys for tightening stems and bars adjusting your saddle height angle and brakes, bottom bracket taps for fixing damaged threads, spoke keys for straightening your wheels, cable cutters for shortening gear and break cables and the outer casing, cone spanners for adjusting the bearings in your wheels… the list goes on and on.

You can buy bike tools individually or as a complete set. Buying a basic tool kit is a great place to start if you are going to start servicing your own bike. There are several different kits you can choose from and they are all made up of different bike tools but most tool kits will provide you with the basics. Tools you find handy when you start out are; a chain breaker, cone spanners, crank puller, chain whip, freewheel remover, tyre levers, allen key set, shifting spanner, screwdriver, spoke tool, puncture kit, pedal spanner and headset spanner. These sorts of tools are commonly needed for general repairs and servicing. Tool kits generally start around the $100 mark.

Specialty tools like headset presses, bottom bracket taps and disc mount facing tools are not the sort of thing that you use every day and require an experienced hand to do the job properly so if the time comes and you are considering adding a specialty bike tool to your collection, think about the likelihood of needing it more than once as it may be cheaper to have an experienced bicycle mechanic do the work for you..

For handy hints and tips on maintaining your bicycle, check out some of our articles here . If you live local and get stuck, come on down to either the Strathpine or Kippa-Ring Stores and one of our experienced bicycle mechanics will sort it out for you.