The glee in Nick's eyes when he had his toolz out was next level..does his gf see that kind of glee in his eyes 🤣

I use a nail clipper (not scissors) for zip ties. It gets it all the way down.

Damn I love it when Nick's on the show he has common sense and he's quirky at the same time keep up the good work.

Agree flush side cutters are worth having but you don't need cycle specific ones. I really rate Piergiacomi (Italian made) side cutters made for the electronics industry, they're under £10 (depending on the model) and will last a lifetime (so long as you only cut copper wire or plastic zip ties, not steel brake/gear cables). Knipex also make some heirloom grade ones for less than the Jagwire ones.

VAR disc brake facing tool.... "No, don't touch it, in fact don't even look at it" 😆

I love my „P&K Lie“ truing stand - a work of art similar to the Abbey one (aluminum, brass and stainless steel), but with precision gauges instead of just some adjustable pins.

This is why I miss working in a bike shop, access to fabulous tools for those after work builds and workshop use on days off. I might have been obsessive, but then I was never happier at work than when I worked in a good bike shop. These days, when discussing tools with my partner, who is a motorcycle mechanic, can be horrifying. Not only do they have a complete Snap-on tool kit that cost more than my car, but they have the weird dealer only tools that individually costs hundreds and are used rarely, sitting unused for months if not years on end. Fixing my bike with their Snap-on stuff does feel nice though. 😁

Unior Hub Genie will save you a modest £709 if you want to pull hub end caps.

I use knipex cutters and I recommend Plato for a budget cutter. A vernier or a micrometre off Amazon works well for checking wear limits on rotors for a lot less than a dedicated gauge

Congratulations on being so professional and enthusiastic about bike tools and collecting so many. I like the cable tie cutter best.🙂

Nick must have 100s of not needed tools but can give them the giggles…keep showing em pls!

I think this is my favourite Nick video yet 👍 As someone who just finished rebuilding my bike from the frame up (following a wonderful repair job by Carbon Bike Repair) I am very cognisant of how much less swearing is necessary when using good quality parts & tools!!

I love this series! ❤

I just got the $20 AliExpress copy of the hanger tool add-on and immediately confirmed that my gravel bike bars were, in fact, bent in when the bike fell over while I had leaned it against a lamp post. They looked a little wonky, but because the prescription between my left and right eyes are wildly different, I couldn't tell if it was my eyesight or what. Great tool to have, and I can use it to get the levers positioned just right when I swap in the new bars.

Lmao, 0:33 those are just electronics flush cutters, you can find them all day for under $10, typical that a "bike" specific ones would be $20.

Great video from Nik & Francis 👍👍

I've had one of those little cutters you used for cable ties for years. It was originally bought for use with cutting electronic component legs after soldering into PCB, but I pretty quickly discovered they are AWESOME for cutting cable ties... the sharp edges left by other cutters are a total menace!

Unior hub genie is a great alternative for end cap removal. The jagwire crimper and twingrip are worth every penny.

One of my favourite videos from you guys. I could see stars in his eyes 🤩

I have the Abbey Tools HAG, and it's a work of art.

I was thinking "Abbey HAG and VAR disc brake mount facer" before watching this, glad to not be disappointed.

Love this video. All these tools are completely unnecessarily expensive for home, but I would expect a bike shop to have them in good quality. When I worked at BAe we used comparable tools which were so high end they made a task efficient and also delivered a quality result. If I hand a bike shop, I would 100% have these tools too! Great Video.

Okay, the green truing stand is gorgeous!

I have the knippex pliers and they're awesome 👌 Though the unior end cap removal tools are enough for me and the unior wheel truing stand is great too I also bought the wera torque screwdriver set and bits with the case just to do the hydraulic compression nuts on brake levers/calipers 😅

Always wanted the Abbey bike tools suspension bearing press but now bought the Alt Alt suspension bearing press kit. Real nice piece of kit to work with.

A $30 digital angle finder and straight piece of material is all you need to check the level of your controls. Clamp the bike somewhere it won't move, zero the digital angle gauge off the seat post, and then use your straight piece of material across your hoods or levers and adjust till it reads 90°.

All great tools! One of mine is Finish Line Premium Grease. I use it on the squeaky threads of my caliper piston spreader like those @ 2:50 😁

Love the idea of a break pad wear indicator. Im always wondering when the right time is to replace my pads. 😊

Still love my ancient VAR Professional wheel jig. Ludicrously expensive decades ago when new. I randomly found it next to a bin in Leith about 20 years ago. The centring cones for QR axles were missing so I borrowed some from someone who had another jig and had a machine shop copy them.

Love a good tool! That VAR disc brake facer looks fantastic. We bought the Park one for the workshop but it's so overly complicated how it works this looks a lot simpler! Just need the boss to spend the £900! 😀

a couple tools i really like are the Wheels Mgf Centerlock socket, stop and rod for centerlock rotors. as well as my 1/4 and 3/8 dr torque wrenches by EWK

For end-caps you can buy Unior Hub Genie which goes inside them and expands, but is quite reasonably priced and does work ideed.

Thanks Francis and Nic...sir , Ty-wrap gun !! Full blown tool crazy.. It tensions , and cuts ...oooh

Love this, next time do a demo of each tool as well, so we can see them all in their glory!

I use a centrimaster trueing stand it's the most precise I've used yet

I use my $500 DMC crimping tool for cable ends. It's made for electrical pin connectors, but works great for cable ends.

Love these tools. I definitely need some of them 🤩😍

Brown used the VAR facer on my Mason when he finished off the build, good to know that if the brakes are off its not the facing and easily to sort out.

I have nearly all the bike tools that I'm ever likely to need and I can't say that any of them are all that esoteric or super expensive. I do have a truing stand but it was a cheap store brand model from Performance that I haven't had to use yet as my wheels are built like tanks and still run true. I have a really nice Park consumer level bike stand that does double duty to store my bike that was well worth its relatively modest cost. I did once buy a nice spring-loaded Tacx bottom bracket tool that I've used exactly once, when I installed my bike's square taper old-style bottom bracket, and have not needed to use it since. But when I needed it I really needed it so it was worth the $20 or so I paid at the time. I have good digital calipers that I regularly put to use. And I have a decent set of torque wrenches that do double duty for working on my car. Nothing too fancy here I'm afraid. I do though have some rarely used car tools that mostly sit unused, but when I need them there's no substitute and they've more than paid for themselves by saving me the costs of having a shop do the work. For example a wheel bearing removal and installation kit for interference fitted bearings, that's basically a larger and heavier-duty version of a bike bearing removal and press kit. I've never used it for such but I imagine that used carefully it could be used to remove or press press-fit bottom brackets, head tube and fork crowns and races, and perhaps even wheel bearings. I have both a rotary tool and die grinder, both cordless, that have been incredibly useful in restoring various car parts and removing rust and crud prior to repainting. The rotary tool has proven useful for working on my bike as well, for removing scuffs and burrs and cutting cable housing flush and square. It would probably work well to clean up my wheel rims as I still use rim brakes. In fact a lot of tools that I originally bought for use on my car have proven to be useful for working on my bike, like various punches, snapped, seized and rounded bolt extractors, picks, files, wrenches, sockets, socket adapters, breaker bars, and, I will sheepishly admit, an impact wrench, for removing a crank arm and cassette that hadn't been removed in years and were stuck tight, at its lowest setting, blipped just briefly. Worked great and no damage done but definitely not to be used haphazardly on a bike.

Vernier calipers are accurate, it's the person reading them that is the problem! And for those people they make digital calipers :)

I definitely want the tool to get your levers perfectly level 😭

My crazy tools... P&K Lie truing stand and DT Swiss tensiometer. Can't wait to amortize the cost down to $100 per wheel. :/ I really need (tm) to get that Japanese spoke cutter that wheelfanatyk sells. And a granite table and a wire EDM, cuz... what is 'need' compared to 'want'?

Definitely thinking about those cable tie cutters. Just now I'm using fret cutters and they're can't get into tight corners. They make a nice flat cut, though.

I own the Jagwire cable cutters (not flush cutters), and they are really nice. My work has the park tool truing stand too.

Can't beat decent tools. Love that sram piston pusher ❤😊

Tools I have but don’t need. Third hand tool holds rim calipers against rim while adjusting cables. Campagnolo crank puller, T wrench, peanut butter wrench. Only the last one has any utility. Campy BIG Lusso wine cork remover. It’s expensive $275. I don’t need it but it works wonderfully and has for 41 years.

I am so happy I ride quick release 135/100 axles with rim brakes after watching this The mech tool was very nice The trying stand I couldn't get behind because it's an expensive entry to... Not even dial gauges.

I bought a set of £20 dress making scissors just to cut bar tape, which is a whole ridiculous £7 more than the Park Tool ones. They sat in my toolbox for ages after I first used them, and then found their way into my fiance's sewing kit... I feel like the Campag bottle opener needs an honourable mention here too. I definitely don't need it, but I definitely want it.

You can check ur levers are level by turning urbike upside down onto the hoods (& saddle) on a known level floor, and put the spirit level on the seat tube to check its perfectly vertical... Bit of faff, but good enough. Or clamp the bike vertical and the use spirit level horizontally across hoods (easier once bike is clamped upright)

The Unior hub genie is far cheaper and more effective than the endcap puller you featured. Also, knipex super knips electronics flush cutters are a similar price to the Jagwire zip tie snips, but they work far better and feel good in the hand!

Just brilliant!

As a professional wheel builder, buy the P&K Lie wheel truing stand. Substantially better than any other stand on the market. Bar none.

Abby’s the best. I’ll take their Stu Stick disc truing & piston wedge at 22 bucks over all other options. And yeah, their truing stand is stupid spendy but it’s a joy to work on.

I don't need it often, but when i pull out the Abbey HAG to fix someone's shifting problem in the parking lot before a ride, it never fails to impress.

Hey nick take a look at the unior hub genie as another awesome tool for removing end caps without the risk of maring the outside

Spoke cutting and thread rolling tool

I have an Effetto Mariposa torque wrench @$240, and the t-handle Allen keys from Beta tools (also $240), which are technically for motorcycles (I don’t own a motorcycle) and hardened to be able to handle far more torque than you would ever put on a bicycle bolt, but they’re so freakin beautiful. I also have too many Wera tools, including all three of their torque wrenches ($500+ or so-did I mention I already had a torque wrench?), wratchet socket drivers for cars and bicycles (I don’t own a car), and the absolute best Allen keys and bits I’ve ever seen. And, just in case you think I might be a sane person, I have the Silca “100th Edition” set of Allen Keys, absolutely NOT worth $185 (the same set can be had for around $125, in a less fancy box.) The worst part is that I have never lost or worn out a quality Allen key, so it’s not like I *need* more tools…

OMG! Those Abbey tools are works of art!

I NEED the SRAM piston press and both Birdman brake pad and rotor wear indicator tools. NEED.

SRAM Ultimate Piston Press works on Shimano too. It’s a really nice tool!

That hub cap puller could be made with twenty minutes of cad, and a few cents of filament. Love it

I was in Italy in the 80s. I was in the Guerciotti shop and saw a complete Campagnolo tool kit for the equivalent of $600. Instant lust.

My good old park tool hw2 old school headset wrench for threaded headset but the sturdiest and best tool for vintage/retro mod builds

The tools are nice, but how about that allroad sweater! How would a discerning bike snob go about aquiring one of those, if i may ask?

Hottest take I have as a bike mechanic is that the park tool derailleur hanger tool is a fundamentally better tool at its task than the abbey tool. However there is no competition in terms of build quality.

Knipex 78 61 140 for flush cutters.

Top tip, if you're buying pliers, side cutters or flush cutters, make sure they say Knipex on the side. Similar price to the bike specific rubbish too (7861125 Electronic Super Knips 125mm)

That abbey top cap adapter would work with any other hanger alignment tool. It kinda makes sense if it makes a really expensive tool do more then 1 thing.

First tool video that had tools I didn't have already

Exactly why I detest the net...made exactly for those with way too much money and a low understanding of engineering. Only purchase specific tools if it’s actually required and not because I can afford too

Never going to be able to make a carbon bike with perfect brake mounts straight from the mold, but I agree facing is a process that the factory should do. Instead, you have to track down the one shop in town with a facing tool and pay them a lot of money to do it- both that tool and the Park one are so expensive that only the premium shops tend to have them.

Just to blow your minds, the clip tie cutter is just a plastic cutter or 'sprue cutter' for models, pilers have a blunter edge as you traditionally would use them for wire - you can get them for a fiver so a good £15-00 saving there!

What, no affiliate links or codes? After seeing Nic's enthusiasm for these tools, I'm ready to buy all 10 of them!

Thank goodness a new post, I was running out of things to watch.

That Abbey Tools trueing stand is insane

I have a unior conical square crank removal tool because I forgot to remove the washer from the bolt once😅

Who needs these ridiculous bike tools when you can just use a banana peel for traction and a squirrel for a bell! 🍌🐿️

Twingrips are my go-to whenever someone asks me "what is your favorite tool in your box." Love those things, they've gotten me out of so many tight spots.

Kinda/sorta makes me miss my bike shop daze....just for the tools, not for the (too many) a-hole customers! Happy that guys like you are dealing with 'em instead of me!!!! :-)

My frame have issue. How much for adjust frame to disc with this tool ? Are you based in London ?

As others have said normal side cutters work for zip ties but also if all you have are ‘normal’ cutters then cut the zip tie tail across its broadest direction not the narrowest this guarantees you’ll not get any sharp edges

Good sparkys use cable tie pliers that tighten the cable tie and trim it flush once it’s tight. cheap from any good electrical shops.

You know a small $3.00 Nail clipper works just as good as the $19.99 Zip ties cuter & if you still not happy, a couple of passes with a emery board will make it super smooth.

Abbey tools so beautiful. Would struggle to use them out of fear of getting the dirty or damaged.

Expensive set for just pulling the hub end caps. What about the Unior Hub Genie Extractor?

Most expensive and limited tool I have in the garage is a single socket I bought for my Speed Triple 1050 16 years ago. £140 to undo 1 nut, once. I sold the bike a few months after use...

3 different thread pitches just on thruaxles.....wtf😅

For after working in the shop, the Campagnolo corkscrew

Just agree, you do need good snips

If you own a bike shop, 100% you should have all of these tools. It’s why people are paying you. The average shed doesn’t need them😂

What I find most amazing. Abbey tool wheel stand was sold on day one and I believe is still on waiting list only. Abbey, Silca and Vera doesn't make just tools. Everything is a work of art but soo expensive. I was lucky to buy a bunch of tools from all three last year with good discounts to use at home. I don't need them but they make me smile and work on my bikes more regularly. Totally worth it. Effetto Mariposa torque wrench should be in this video as well.

Finger nail clippers also clean up zip ties nicely, just a well known tip.

A $6 micro cutter like Hakko-CHP-170 are the same thing as the jagwire cutters.

I’ve scratched the hell outta some end caps!

You can easily 3d print the Ceramic Speed tool for about 0.01% the price of the tool kit 😂

Here I am thinking that zip tie cutter is way too expensive ($22 USD) while I recall all many, many the times I sanded/filed ones I cut so I don't lacerate myself on them. But the Park TS2 stand I scored on Facebook Market for $100 (including the base tray) I use very infrequently is such a steal. Typical tool junky logic I guess. Which one looks better sitting on the workbench is what matters I guess 😀😜🤣

Er, i have 3 calipers. All 3 Mitutoyo. 1 x fine adj imp/mm vernier. 1 x 0.001" imperial dial 1 x 0.02mm metric dial Both the last two coz i'm getting old and my eyes arent what they once were reading the first. All 3 are reliable, accurate, and repeatable.

What a both nice and nerdy video

Does Nick have a Phil Wood Spoke Cutting and Threading Machine at his workshop. They cost US $11 000 to purchase brand new, but I would love to own one. Do you own one Nick? If not, why not? Scott Australia

Nail clippers work well for flush cut