Tools you never knew you needed until you got one

[thelawnet]

Old topic but I recently bought a JIS screwdriver

apparently not.

https://www.webbikeworld.com/hozan-jis- ... rs-review/

[Sweep]

Thanks for that niggle.

Though one wonders why topeak, who make good multitools, don't put one on every one if their things. For I am pretty sure they just provide Phillips.

Edit - just see that lawnet has complicated things.

[Mick F]

My Topeak is Phillips.

I must say though, and I said it on the previous threads about JIS, that I care not a jot.
Phillips on my small multitool is hardy EVER used anyway. It would have been better had it been a flat blade, but how often do people adjust ANYTHING when out riding? I never do.

I take a multitool as a "just in case" item. I bought it YEARS ago, and it's almost never been used at all, though I always take it with me ............... along with two inner tubes, tyre levers and two CO2 canisters.

Any adjustments are only done after fitting something new. My toolbox has a flat blade screwdriver in it and that's what I use for derailleurs both Campag and Shimano. The rest of them on the bikes are Allen and Torx.

[Gearoidmuar]

Well, Mick, sometimes you gotta go for your gun!
Yesterday, chain felt iffy, 15m into spin. Next thing on the ground.
Had a tiny Topeak multitool which has a chaintool you have to extract from it first. Had a few spare links, so fixed it and had to use the flatbladed screwdriver in it to tweak the fix to unstiffen it.

You never know. I must've broken a chain about 8 times in my time cycling, if not more.

[Mick F]

Never broken a chain in all my 60odd years of riding.

However, a few years ago, the KMC Missing link went "missing" as I was descending a very long hill. The chain fell off at some point, but I never noticed for ages until I started climbing the next hill. I was only three miles from home, some of it downhill so I did a mixture of walking and freewheeling back.

In the three miles home, I didn't see my missing chain. It took another ride later in the day (with a spare chain fitted!) retracing my steps before I found it.

Maybe it would be easier to take a spare chain than try to fix one.

[Gearoidmuar]

The reason I break chains is simple.
Optimistic neglect of chain monitoring!
I put a new one in today. Didn't have to change the cassette, no slipping or such.

[Cowsham]

For adjusting cup and cone ball bearings in pedals. The 9 mm socket fits inside the 11mm socket to lock one against the other. -- couldn't get mine locked so bought this DMR V8 pedal tool which fits my XLC pedals for £10.99 off eBay -- works perfect.

The 1/4" ratchet and 13mm spanner is not supplied just the two sockets but most spanner friendly bikers will have these common tools.