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I have the wolf tooth pliers which are perfectly fine, but are "an extra thing" to carry. Is there a multi tool that has one built in?
I have the oneup one in my edc steerer tool
Lock the mech, lift the quick link one tooth on the chainring and tap it with whichever chain tool you have to hand.
Lock the mech, lift the quick link one tooth on the chainring and tap it with whichever chain tool you have to hand.
So hitting the Quick Link will open it? If so, what direction does it need "hitting"???
Would love to see a photo/video demonstration of this!
I have these in my tourer toolkit.
https://www.merlincycles.com/kmc-missing-link-tyre-levers-189379.html
Would love to see a photo/video demonstration of this!
I'd settle for an understandable explanation TBH
I’ve successfully used a bit of old gear cable looped through the link and around a suitable longer object which is then twisted to pull the cable tight and the link opened with ease. (At home in the garage and couldn’t find the pliers).
Ah, it’s got a name - the Spanish Windlass.
I wonder if a zip tie would be strong enough to do that, or failing that what’s the most minimal material that would work. A length of string, part of an old shoe lace etc. I feel an experiment coming on.
https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=83800&start=15#p752877
has a picture. Tiny bit trickier with narrow wide as you have to lift off two links, but still works fine in my experience.
I have a pair of Granit tyre levers that interlock to create a pair of chain link pliers.
Topeak Mini PT30 does 🙂
It also has a reamer and tyre plug tool which saved me a load of space, storage for a pair of links, about 3 Torx sizes and the other usual stuff. I can't remember which part does it but I also found a hole/slot in one of the tools that will take a valve core out (the tabs in the chain breaker perhaps)
Topeak Alien X
Probably being thick by why would you need to [i]open[/i] a quick link whilst on the trail?
I have a pair of Granit tyre levers that interlock to create a pair of chain link pliers.
This given you almost certainly need to carry tyre levers anyway. Hadn't seen the Granit ones, mine are like this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174604976061
Probably being thick by why would you need to <em class="bbcode-em">open a quick link whilst on the trail?
I've had to do it twice (neither on my immaculately maintained bike obviously)
Once where the chain had chainsucked so badly there was no way it was coming out from stuck between chainring and BB (on a double chainring)
Once where f' knows what they did but had twisted their chain and needed a length taken out and the quicklink rejoining. The second could have been done with a second quicklink admittedly.
open a quick link whilst on the trail?
i had a quick link fail (outer plate bent) I think it caught on a rock
Probably being thick by why would you need to open a quick link whilst on the trail?
The ability to do so took a long trailside repair where the the chain came off and wrapped up so tight nothing could move and made it a very quick unlink, unravel and relink job. Could have used a chain breaker and new quick link, sure, but much easier to undo the existing one!
There's the Wippermann Connect Chain Link;
https://www.tredz.co.uk/.Wippermann-Connex-Chain-Connector-Links_126802.htm
Easy to take apart by hand. And multi use not like many that come with the chain.
Had one for years without issue.
The oneup edc tool supposedly has one… when I tried it was almost impossible.
https://m.pinkbike.com/video/473810/
Got there in the end, then bought some a cheap tyre lever version.
Shoe lace is supposed to work and a guess is an easy carry.
As mentioned above I've chosen to add a small 30cm ish length of old gear cable to my tool kit. Coiled up with a bit of tape on it to prevent it fraying.
Granit ones work well and double up as tyre levers. Can also keep a spare link in them. Can confirm it works a treat when we had a mechanical half way round the Capital Trail.
The half tyre lever ones have the issue of just being shit tyre levers. One thing I won't do - ride out with shit levers given I have inserts both sides and carbon wheels.
Topeak pt30, wire trick, or stacking trick (hit it with a rock).
Continuity has it. Riding with second rate levers might sooner or later lead to a lot of bad words. Are there any decent levers available that are designed to do an additional task?
I've always thought the the chain pin tool/chain splitter could be designed in a way that it would wind in a quick link.
There is a video of Seth from Berm Peak showing you how to do this with a shoe lace. I tried it and it worked. If you’re not running Boa shoes you may already be carrying the tool you need.
Small length of strimmer wire is what I use.
Nothing fancy. Only bright neon yellow 🙂
you may already be carrying the tool you need.
I already carry these:
https://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/products/pack-pliers
I just wanted to see if there was "One Tool to Rule Them All"
The half tyre lever ones have the issue of just being shit tyre levers.
I'd agree with this. I'd rather have to resort to a rock.
These are cheap and small
How well do they work on gummed-up quick links?
As with the above posteers, I have used string, ziptie and a shoelace (in extremis) to undo a quicklink.
> https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=83800&start=15#p752877 < has a picture.
Love that the picture shows the tap with a large pair of mole grips!😂
Being STW,the correct answer is ...a 50cm length of power kite cord (extra points if it's kevlar).
😉 😃
worth trying the gear cable at home before you skip off assuming it'll work. It's worked fine a number of times, but I've also had experience of deep, painful indents in my fingers and an unsplit chain. And a trip to the bike shop to buy pliers.
How well do they work on gummed-up quick links?
On my cleaned and lubed every ride (*one of the wheels in a liquid bath cleaner) chain it has worked when needed, but yeah it’s not the most substantial thing in my toolkit.
worth trying the gear cable at home before you skip off assuming it’ll work. It’s worked fine a number of times, but I’ve also had experience of deep, painful indents in my fingers and an unsplit chain
Ned,the beauty of cord over cable,you can add an allen key to the mix ,acting as a turnbuckle it gets a fair old tension on things.
worth trying the gear cable at home before you skip off assuming it’ll work. worth trying the gear cable at home before you skip off assuming it’ll work.
this. Cord / cable / shoelace can work, and is undoubtably both a brilliant lightweight, easily carried solution and a bit of a bodge. Which end of that scale it is for you depends mostly on how well you understand what you’re doing and have experimented in a nice warm, dry garage / shed / house before trying on it when tired, wet and p!ssed off on a remote hillside
I've used a shoe lace but in all honestly its faster to use the "lifted link on a chainring" bodge and just hit it with your multitool of choice.
Are there any decent levers available that are designed to do an additional task?
The flat schwalbe levers are both the finest tyre levers available and quite n effective spoon?