Great video. As someone who’s not very good with bikes, but trying to learn so I don’t become a problem. What do you find are the most common places that need to be checked? Like the seat post and the stem bolt?
Seat post and headset/stem are the obvious ones, but also after travel making sure that the brake calipers are centered and tightened is important too.
Helps a lot if you understand something about torque wrenches ... and torque ... and what you are actually trying to measure ... and why. Wet? Dry? Do you know? Clean bolt, dirty bolt, worn thread, fresh thread, appropriate engagement, bottoming out? Which torque setting is the limiting factor - maybe the bolt as 6nm lasered onto it but is the fitting that you are clamping around even capable of supporting that torque setting? How will you know? Is your torque wrench correctly calibrated, when was it last checked, who checked it? And - if you use a torque wrench correctly, to set a torque on a bolt, you won't actually know (unless you pay a lot more attention to what you are doing than most), whether the torque was originally set correctly or not. Then ... you can start talking about checking whether your bolts are "correctly torqued" ...
I appreciate the depth of knowledge you’re bringing to this - the point of this video is to hopefully make people aware of why they might need a torque wrench. I agree with everything you are saying, but I can’t teach kindergartners calculus
10/10 vid this boy going to the top!!!
“UOENO” - Rick Ross
lol the magic touch 😂
We all know a guy… haha!
Nice video man,gonna check my bolts rn
Thanks for watching!!
Great video.
As someone who’s not very good with bikes, but trying to learn so I don’t become a problem. What do you find are the most common places that need to be checked? Like the seat post and the stem bolt?
Seat post and headset/stem are the obvious ones, but also after travel making sure that the brake calipers are centered and tightened is important too.
Helps a lot if you understand something about torque wrenches ... and torque ... and what you are actually trying to measure ... and why.
Wet? Dry?
Do you know?
Clean bolt, dirty bolt, worn thread, fresh thread, appropriate engagement, bottoming out?
Which torque setting is the limiting factor - maybe the bolt as 6nm lasered onto it but is the fitting that you are clamping around even capable of supporting that torque setting?
How will you know?
Is your torque wrench correctly calibrated, when was it last checked, who checked it?
And - if you use a torque wrench correctly, to set a torque on a bolt, you won't actually know (unless you pay a lot more attention to what you are doing than most), whether the torque was originally set correctly or not.
Then ... you can start talking about checking whether your bolts are "correctly torqued" ...
I appreciate the depth of knowledge you’re bringing to this - the point of this video is to hopefully make people aware of why they might need a torque wrench. I agree with everything you are saying, but I can’t teach kindergartners calculus
fully torqued watching this
That’s what I like to hear
this happened one time to me with my pedal. just came flying off after the bike shop LOL
On brand for bike shops, sometimes it’s mind blowing how much they overlook.
Idk man I’ve heard Tucson endurance has a mechanic that knows the difference between 5 and 5.05 nm #certifiedpromechanic
that guy is a LEGEND. Really knows how to break tririg products.