“ConTarcktive Criticism”
I guess I do rarely use my cone wrenches that they’ve never bothered me. My TS2 was annoyingly out of alignment but I fixed it. The headset press is fucking fantastic.
thats dedication
I have bent many a Park allen wrench. Some of them seem to be made out of semi-hardened butter.
Pedro’s cone wrenches are so demonstrably superior to their competitors.
like current competitors, or the old good stuff? I feel like most shops have the good old cone wrenches around that just stay to spec, and then the Parks that are like 15.5+mm for a 15.
We got some Park tri-torx at my shop.
Ho-ly fuck are they trash. They’re a great resource, but some of their tools remind me of the old shop dude who insists that his way is right and the product manual is wrong. Mostly dependable, but occasionally they fail miserably and take everyone down with them.
Pedro’s also make excellent Allen wrench sets, torx wrenches are only okay. Their wrench thing that holds freewheel and BB tools is also great.
That last bullet point is some classic Jan bullshit
I’ll go out on a limb and confidently say that no non-Panaracer tire on a tubeless-ready rim has EVER suddenly unseated from >1atm because “no liquid sealant left inside”.
A tire that’s leaking down to zero may unseat itself after there’s no longer positive pressure inside, but currently-inflated tubeless tires do not just fall off the beadseat. Maybe Panaracer.
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Thing about Park. Typical mechanic has access to those tools wholesale anyway. It’s only home mechanics that pay the premium. Or they can bring bike to shop.
There are really only two things stated in that sealant tips crap that aren’t total bullshit (and they’re both common sense and advertised on the bottle of any sealant): shake your sealant, and make sure you use enough.
Everything else is complete horseshit.
Jan’s point can be readily refuted by the common technique of dry-mounting tires (this is the best way, adding sealant before seating the other bead is dumb). I left a pair of thunder burts inflated but without sealant over night (KOM rims), after getting side tracked. They hadn’t lost a significant amount of air when I came back the next day.
The seal on a tubeless tire has nothing to do with sealant and everything to do with how the tire’s bead interacts with the rim and the rim tape.
lol seriously. those are tips for his tires.
I’ve seen porous sidewalls from every brand out there when dry mounted. Just sayin.
wtb straight up have holes in them sometimes
compass still worse tho
porous sidewalls have fuck all to do with bead/hook engagement.
On the park tool topic, has anyone else seen more blown out t25 drivers than anything else? I don’t get it. No matter what company or quality of product every t25 driver older than 6 months seems to be warped to shit.
Yeah, about half the tires I’ve mounted have had symmetrical holes
The cheap steel that Park uses is very bad at resisting torsion. I’ve blown through two different Torx 3-ways. When I got Park to warranty my second one, I sold it on eBay and bought a Pedro’s, and it has been fine. And it’s always the T25 that breaks because that’s the one that’s in most common use.
Whoever is making their L-bend Torx tools seems to be using material of a higher quality because I’ve had the same set for probably 3 years with no problems.
I just find that almost any t25 gets pretty shitty pretty quickly. But for sure the park allen/torx/any-fucking-thing wrenches slip and break like nothing else.