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When you start building an “at-home” work station for your man-cave, there’s an infinite amount of tool you want. Nevertheless, the tools you need are not created equally. Some you use ever 5 minutes and others you won’t touch for a month. Some of them are needed while others are for pure luxury (like truing stands, part washers, and the Park Tool pizza cutter.) The Stan's NoTubes Valve Core Remover certainly isn’t a completely necessary tool to have but it sure does make life so much easier. At

When getting into mountain biking, there are components that are mandatory for riding like wheels, frames, and forks and then there are other components that improve the quality of riding, improve your performance, and keep your bike running the way it should. I would classify chain retention systems as part of the later. Although through the improvement of other components we don’t see them as common, there is certainly a time and place for chain guides. MRP, one of the chain guide kings, came

As I’ve mentioned in previous reviews, we live in a sea of carbon. Carbon frames, carbon wheels, carbon cranks, even carbon headset spacers and top caps! Good thing is, the majority of these components serve a performance-based advantage. One of the quickest ways to add performance to your bike is to install a carbon handlebar. The increase damping removes vibrations from the trail that quickly cause arm pump and fatigue. But just like most components out there, there are so many carbon bars to

I always carry two CO2 cartridges and an inflator in my pack for flats, but honestly with my tubeless setup it has not been a major issue. When I became a mountain bike trail guide however and the whole fleet had tubed tires, I knew I needed a backup pump in case I ran out of CO2 or a situation required a hand pump. I picked up this pump because of the size primarily, it packs down to a small size that can always be in the bottom of a pack for emergencies, but that does not get in the way. One

If you have a press fit bottom bracket you are probably going to need to replace it at some point. Not saying that press fit BBs are bad… actually yes I am saying that haha. Anyways this handy tool allows you to tap out the bearings on your press fit frame and in a way that (if you are careful) does not damage the bearing like more creative methods might. Although I do not have extensive experience with this tool, the few times I have used it went off without a hitch. It comes with two adaptors