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This is good mental preparation for my first BMO full marathon. Keep it up!!

I'm about to run my first Vancouver marathon and this video helped me get a good idea of how much I should expect to suffer lol. Good stuff

The video was well-made for an introduction. It's fascinating to witness electronics holding up after 200K. I'm also considering joining Randonneurs. Please share other brevets that you've challenged. Good Luck

Solid effort. I saw your time, and I ran it in 3:40 and wondered if I was at the finish line when you were and as I was thinking that saw myself walk behind you at 10:54 in the blue shirt and black tights.

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By far the most helpful video on the subject I have found in months of trying to get my Garmin Explore 2 to work (no help from the shop I bought it at). Thank you!

could have been worse, at least you didnt ask him to smack her butt for you!

If you are buying tools for work solely on your own bike, then it is your decision what tools you will use. If you are using the tools for a job repairing other people's bikes on a paid basis, if you damage customer's bikes because of poor tool purchases, eventually you will pay for this one way or another.

For a good home mechanic set - DON'T BUY READY MADE BIKE TOOL SETS. You won't use half of them, and you'll get the cheap end of the market. Cheap allen keys will round off your bolts and land you with a big bike shop bill. Buy what you need when you need it, then you will have exactly the tools you need and good quality ones. Cheap tools bend, break and damage parts. You will also have to replace them more often. The best advice is leafn how your bike works and how to use your tools. A few times people have come to me with ruined parts complaining that the tool they bought from Amazon or elsewhere didn't work, only to find they'd used the puller the worng way round and stripped all the threads! Result £400 (similar in dollars) in new parts and labour. One fool wrecked his bike so much it was unrepairable. Watch videos, attend classes, watch and ask professional mechanics - avoid like the plague friends who are full of advice but little practical experience. They will cost you cash.

That price was shocking. I'm guessing this is Canadian Dollars? I bought the same stand and retail price in the US was $199. For the price, I think it's a great work stand. Very stable.

Finally an easy to follow video on this! Thanks

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Great video!

I crashed hard headfirst on my road bike wearing an MET rivale helmet that was 2 years after its expiration date and it was totally destroyed…….but I lived so I feel no need to replace mine that soon if kept in good condition

Nice shoes! Also no free shoutouts. @cliffbars, send the man a box of bars already!

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I’m still trying to do unnecessary mountain

I have two rules. 1. Never buy from Amazon. 2. Follow rule 1.

Park tool for me all I can get from my bike shop

Think I got the same kit for under 100 on Jenson. Love to hate them but it works wonders.

Park Tool is professional quality, where the Amazon kit is setup for personal use. Like all tools homeowner and commercial use. No comparison.

Bike hand YC-748 👍👍👍

Would this not be a “Bikehand” vs “Park Tool” comparison? Other than ordering off Amazon it has nothing more to do with Amazon.

THERE S ALWAYS A CHEAPER OPTION some good some bad some ok for when you need it . l ve bought what l needed most on at a time park tools mostly but all my regular tools are mastercraft from CT which comes with a lifetime warranty too .l have used them as a mechanic for yrs with no issues :) I THINK THIS WILL DO FOR US REGULAR CYCLISTS just upgrade whatever breaks

Had to break out the cowboy hat for this 🔥🔥

I’ve bought all kinds of tools over the years. I have the bike hand disc brake tool in this video. It’s just as good as any others. If you’re going by more expensive bike specific tools I suggest ethier unior or abbey tools VS park. For more high end tools that aren’t bike specific like Allen keys wera or Klein I suggest. Bike hand tools are pretty solid and for most part I’d buy them over park if I had to chose between those 2 brands

You forgot pro bike tool

Well of course you can buy cheap tools and get angry every single time you use them because they either break, destroys the bike and the ergonomics isn’t always very nice. I’m using Park tool at work which is fine and they do the job. But at home I’m using a variety of tools such as Abbey bike tools, Silca, Wera, Knipex, Wolftooth components and a few from Park tool as well. For me wrenching on the bike is as much of my hobby as riding the bike so it should be a joy to do it which in my opinion requires nice tools.

Park Tools are good, but not that good. A lot of the tools needed for bikes aren't bike specific, such as the torx, hex, screwdrivers, ratchets, etc... Many tools like the cassette and BB wrench have a socket as alternative. Get those tools from some better brand and you'll pay about the same for better quality. The most important ones I have are: - Hex by PB Swiss - Torx by Wiha - Small precision hex/torx by Wiha Picofinish - Cable cutter by Knipex - Ratchet for the sockets by Hazet - Open-end/box-end wrenches by Gedore (blue) - Bitset by Bosch (blue) - Ratchet bitdriver by Milwaukee

I'm a car mechanic and we laugh at everyone with snap on tool box. Same thing with park tool. They are just regular tools (some snap on are very bad quality) terribly overpriced and park tool also make regular tools but are terribly overpriced. These companies made so much money because of idiots. 80% of the population are total imbeciles.

I own a bike repair shop, started with low budget and cheap tools, it takes 6 months to replace my cheap Chinese tool straight to the top of the food chain tool such as pb swiss, knipex , Wera, Wiha, snap on, vampire tools. If I want to suggest, they’re some tools that needs high precision and high load that you really need to invest on a good ones, Hex/torx key (pb swiss) Chain cutter (topeak) Cable cutter (knipex) Screw drivers (pb swiss) Crank puller (park tool) Cone wrench (park tool) Rachet wrench ( Craftsman) Bb, cassette, freewheel sockets (park tool)

Park tools. For sure.

Great review... thanks... I have a wide assortment of Park tools and Bike Hand tools... Bike Hand quality is usually pretty good and a lot cheaper...

I started with a cheap kit, but when the regularly used tools broke or wore out, I replaced with a higher brand. If you maintain more than one bike, go with the higher end brand. I don't believe just looking at a tool will tell you it's quality

Most of the Bike Hand tools look decidedly inferior to the Park tools. They should be fine for consumer use, where the user might only use any tool a few times over its life. I can't imagine they would hold up under shop use. I have a wide variety of bike tools that I have accumulated over 50 years, including lots of Park and Campagnolo, and I have no problem using low-price tools of decent quality. However, there are some tools, like the cable cutters, where a good tool, like Hozan's, can bring a smile to your face, while a cheap, stamped version, like the Bike Hand, can be a lesson in frustration. BTW, the Park chain stretch gauge that was shown works differently than the one in the Bike Hand kit. I have seen Park versions of that one, as well, but the design of the Park style shown yields more accurate results, as it measures the chain in the way it is loaded in use.

A lot of the time you're simply not comparing like with like, e.g. the FRW-1 freewheel remover wrench from Park that you show is a massive heavy-duty pro workshop tool designed for holding and driving different tools with a 1" hex drive - it doesn't even come with a freewheel remover tool, it's simply a driver handle. The Park PW-4 pedal wrench you show is the most expensive pro workshop option - Park also make a PW-5 home mechanic pedal wrench which is much cheaper and a more reasonable comparison. I'm not a Park Tool completist by any means, but I do work part-time in a bike workshop, and I know that some tools are pro quality and made to last and some just aren't. Just look at the difference between the Bike Hand cable cutter and the Park ones, for example - the Bike Hand cutters are made in China from cheap stamped steel, probably not even hardened, and the Park Tool cutters are made in the USA, properly forged, hardened and ground, with a lifetime guarantee. If you cut some cables with each of them, you would immediately know the difference. Do the Park cable cutters lost a lot more? Yes, of course they do. Are they worth it? That depends how many cables you need to cut, but the Bike Hand ones wouldn't last very long in a bike workshop.

A router can be found in your basement or storage room and is often used to gain access to You Tube via the Interweb. A Rotor is the part of the disc brake system that spins with your wheel. The wheel is the steep park and the tire is the rubber part 😅. Great video and comparison other than that little faux pas.

I have tools from Spin Doctor (Performance Bike) Harbor Freight tools, to Craftsman tools to be used on my bike when it is time to do repairs. However, I purchased these tools years ago and I know they were a lot less expensive compared to what they cost today. I learned to do my own repairs in order to save on costs; the expense in KEEPING a bike and in good working condition when others would (as I know they either had the thought of 1) Doing bike mechanics is not very woman like or 2) Showing Off (which I was not). There are a lot of JEALOUS INSECURE people who also stir up a lot of anger due to PROVOKING someone else with the INTENTION to ANGER THEM.

WHO says Park Tool stuff is the highest quality on the market? Based on my decades turning a wrench I'd rate them similar to the old Sears "Craftsman" quality. ...or maybe Beta in Europe. Certainly good enough and better than most but nowhere near the quality of SnapOn, USAG, or even FACOM. Specialty tools - CYCLUS, BiciSupport, VAR, Abbey all make stuff I'd rate as superior to Park.

Some of your prices are CAD and not US dollars

Thanks for the tips, can't wait to get out there in the spring!

This one is now on my list. Great Beta!

I believe every Park Tool tool is a workshop quality tool, meant to be used thousands of times along it`s life cycle. From personal experience with Bike Hand quality tools from this side of the pond, they are a good way for someone to start getting their hands dirty with bicycles. That being said, like any hobby , when you start to really get into to it, a whole new world is opened before you, and as you dive deep into it, be it the mechanic side or the bike ownership, you start to really tell the diference in quality of hardware, bike components and the tools that are required to work on those . I will share my experience with a chain tool or chain breaker. The first one I owned came in a similar kit ( 39.99 € at Decathlon ) , it lasted 3 years ( maybe used 10 times ), after that I upgraded to a PRO chain breaker, that's Shimano's tool brand. It took about 8 years until it gave up, I used it, my friends used , it had a pretty good life until it broke... Last year I finally bought a Park Tool one, the exact one that you show on the video. Now, did I throw money away with the first two ? I don't think so, those were the tools that made perfect sense financially back then as far as I was willing to spend, given my level of enthusiasm with cycling. I can't remember how many times I had Park Tool mechanic toolkit in the shopping cart, but I could never convince myself to spend that amount of money in a single buy. So I went the single tool at a time route, quality first, because a cheap tool on an expensive bike makes for and expensive repair... This would all be unnecessary if I had a bike shop close to me , which I don't so I have to fix my own bikes, a those of my friends.

Buy American while there's still time.

I doubt if any of the Bikehand tools are hardened steel. But, still good value even if you have to replace the cassette lock ring tool, all the allen keys, and one or two of the cone wrenches later. I've gone down this road of buying cheap tools and having to replace many of them with either Park Tool or other quality hardware store tools. I've even replaced a Filzer pedal wrench as it bent on seized pedals. But honestly if a young person has to replace tools later on, the Bikehand toolkit gives them a good start on learning bike repairs now and the money saved on doing your own repairs justifies having the cheap toolkit than not. When they're older and can afford nicer bikes and things, you treat yourself to better tools.

thank you for compiling this, ive been trying to tell my mom that her wearing a 90s bell helmet has been a bad idea for like 10 years.

PARK TOOLS make good on their guarantee Does Bikehand offer any guarantee ?

I own tools in the full spectrum, from Snap-on/ Matco to Harbor Freight and literally everything in between. I’ve come to value the Icon/ Doyle hand tools from Harbor Freight, because they are so often compared to much higher priced tool truck tools, and in many cases, hold their own. That being said, I also understand a tools value is one that can exceed its design, when pressed to be used in extreme circumstances. While I know the precision and quality of many Taiwanese products I’m also aware that not all are created equal. In looking at many of the closeups of these Bikehand tools, I’m surprised at the poor finish, sloppy looking stamping, rough edges and thinner material composition, as compared to the Park Tools. I demand a lot from my tools and I’ve only had to replace 3 tools, over the 30 years of using them. It’s for that reason, I chose Park Tools because if your going to spend 1k to 12k on a bike, it’s absolutely imperative you get the correct tools for their maintenance. Even if you feel you would only use it once, slipping off a cassette, because your chain whip breaks, and smashing your wrench into a carbon frame, is why I don’t second guess what I buy. Buy once and buy right. Results always vary and sometimes you can only afford what you can. Besides many of the tools in that Bikehand kit wouldn’t even be useful/ or are redundant to tools I already own. It’s only a deal if you really need them all and can make them useful

There will be heartbreaks with every journey for a BQ, but that'll just make the moment so much sweeter once you do. You got this!