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Yeah, threaded Schrader valves are nice. I've never actually had one on a tube before. (I think my dirt bike had them, but I'm not sure?) I actually managed to thread a thin nut from a lamp shade or something onto my rubber Schrader valve once. It was just the right diameter to bind on the...

I had problems with them in my grow closet,.. The closet is hot and humid, and the copper wires turned a dirty brown color from the corrosion and I got bad connections. Those quick connectors are similar to the crimp-on/pinch-on connectors in that there is very little metal to metal contact...

What I liked about them was they were threaded with a locking ring/nut so the valve didn't push in when you pushed the air pump quick release valve on. (Thread-on pump valves lose to much air when you unthread them) I liked how you can crank the valve closed tightly by tightening the top of...

I ride through potholes on purpose cuz it's fun and I want to get used to it. Shadows across the gravel road in front of me can COMPLETELY Hide a 3" deep pothole. I've been through many that I simply couldn't see until I was on top of it.

I went with semi-fat 27.5" X 2.8" Super Moto-X tires on my ebike. Then I added a suspension seat post, a spring seat, and a gell seat cover. I've got a very cushy ride. I can plow through 2-3 inch deep pot-holes at 20 mph riding no-hands. It just floats right through. 😂

There was both types of axle at the time. I had to do quite a bit of searching, but I found a picture of an old-school square non-tapered axle,.. It might have had something to do with my bike being a Raleigh? I remember it had 700C tires and I was used to the domestic 27" tires. When I...

Yeah that gets tricky. I made a torque wrench for my axle nut using my body weight at about 11" from the fulcrum to get me in the ballpark,.. That was before I bought my big torque wrench for over $100 I used that torque wrench twice before I quit driving. Now it sits unused.

Hmmm,.. I don't like it because it's digital and it takes batteries. My concern would be checking the calibration. A digital scale is easy to check with the weights you have, but a torque wrench pretty much needs special equipment to test it accurately. I still like the mechanical spring in...

It turns out that is in US dollars. I can get the single red (0-65 in/lb) fix it stick for $133 CAD.

Awesome!! I didn't know it was available on Amazon, but they don't ship to Canada,.. I can get a set of two for $160 all in. I might do it? I think they're fricken cool as well as functional. They've got the reliability of a regular spring. No fancy clicky stuff that goes out of...

I've got a Lexivon bit set that I use with my torque wrenches and socket wrenches.

I think that it would be easy to see with a regular screwdriver handle driving it? The scale might rotate out of view, but you just reset it in the hex bolt. I bought my ¼" drive in/lb beam wrench on Amazon for $23. It's kinda junky, but I figure it's better thannothing. Ouch $209 plus tax...

My crank bolts are 8mm,.. There is no torque spec on the crank bolts, but the pedals (that use regular wrench) torque to 35 NM, so I hooked up my Crank Brothers tool to my torque wrench and reefed on the tool to 35 NM to see what it feels like and test the tool. The tool was fine at that...

Yeah, I saw that too, and I'm pretty sure that's a set of individual torque wrenches that ratchet at a specific torque ?? I think that the one I linked to is a spring dial gauge ?? It's too bad that they don't show that one actually being used. So the dial is either set to a certain...

I just know that if I buy a torque wrench I need to spend the money and get a good one. With any other tool I can think of, you can tell when the tool is junk or not working properly. I suck trying to guesstimate torque so I would need to trust the tool. I figure that the only way a beam style...

I had the same problem on my Raleigh 10-speed in the 80's. By the time I tightened the nut the square hole in the crank arm was rounded out so I bought a new crank arm. The new crank arm had the square axle hole but it wasn't tapered like my axle, so it would only fit on part way. So, to...

I'm pretty sure it's a spring dial gauge like the Prestacycle torque wrench that @m@Robertson posted. It says this about it,.. "Visually determine the torque value during the locking process." It also says "Do Not exceed 65 in/lb" so it breaks if you apply any torque past its maximum setting...

Yeah I like it. It doesn't look too bad at all. But no, it really isn't functional for me. I sit up perfectly straight when I ride, and the windshield would have to be about a foot higher to keep anything out of my face. Actually it's meant for a motorcycle and is available in flat black, so...

This is what it looked like before I put the windshield on,.. It looks a lot less ridiculous with the windshield. 😂 I found that the windshield didn't do anything unless I ducked down behind it, but it's only there to cover up the front end anyway. 😂

If you can manage to stand your ebike on the rear wheel, a wall mounting system can help save space,..