How to Use the Park Tool TM-1 Tension Meter & Wheel Tension App
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- This video will walk you through the process of using the Park Tool Wheel Tension App in conjunction with the TM-1 Tension Meter.
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The WTA can be found at www.parktool.com/wta
More information on the TM-1 can be found at www.parktool.com/product/spoke...
The WTA is a web-based tool that will produce spreadsheets and a visual diagram to help analyze relative tension between spokes. It is useful for achieving consistent spoke tension, diagnosing wheel tension issues or documenting wheel truing results.
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How the hell was this posted five years ago and I'm just now finding out about it? This should have been the pilot episode for its own season on NBC! It should have been shouted from the rooftops in every corner of the globe! Girlfriends/boyfriends should be sending cards saying thankyou for the return of their loved ones from the garage! The Presidential Medal of Freedom should be considered!
Park Tool is a goddamned national treasure, some of your stuff may be a little pricey but I'm all in because of stuff like this! Keep it up!
I feel like every time I turn to youtube for bike repair insight I end up on a Park video of Calvin. Well done as always.
Park Tool is serious about bike maintenance.. love it!
EXEPTIONAL Video, Great and fluent speaker, a very instructive and professional explanationTHANKS
Dan Arditi Couldn't agree more. This video IS exceptional! Thumbs up.
Completely agree park and Al from mtbr have saved my bacon many times!!
Park Tool is the best for making these helpful videos, and also the helpful web "app" to achieve proper spoke tension.
I love the way you teach Calvin and your voice as well ! Thanks a lot ! It took me ages to understand wheel Tension and with this video, i feel like less stupid than before
Congratulations, finally a clear and understandable video, where you can see and hear in an excellent way.
This is one of the most satisfying wheel related videos I have seen. Really great info and explanations for all facets of wheel checking, and it seems as if I'll be able to fix/build wheels with relative ease once I've had a few practice runs. Calvin rules.
I am not even building or fixing my rims but I watched the entire video.
your mustache has its own parallel universe. love it
AND HERE I SPENT MY LIFE JUST TIGHTENING THEM BY HAND WITH NO PROBLEMS
The way this guy explains thing is so helpful. Great job man
I got a tension meter years ago and didn't expect to use it except on the initial building, but it is so useful to go around a wheel and check before snapping spokes, before a big tour or after 4k miles or a few 100 after building a new set, the tools are very useful to know what's happening with a wheel.
How do people dislike this? Great idea. Great for wheelbuilders.
Let's be honest, the tool ain't cheap so this whole thing goes a long way to adding value to the process. Thanks.
Current price is $104. A bit steep for us weekend warriors.
Because of this video, I bought this tool. Park tools make very good tools. Now I understand more about wheels.
Top notch instruction by Park and Calvin
Extremely high quality information and delivery. Thanks!
Thanks to the team Park tool.
Please make a video on wheel building for a completely new 27.5/700c wheel, how can I choose the right hub for my wheel rim?
How can I choose spoke length?
This kind of video will be very helpful for us. Please.
Thanks again.
this is so good thank you park tool, please make an IOS app for this so we don't need to bring a laptop or use a web based tool
Extremely helpful! Amazing how our local shops are oblivious to proper when truing and tensioning skills. Thanks!
New Age Kenn........... Are they? Hazard how wheels I have, built before the advent of New Age tensionometers et al. are STILL fully operational, never a broken spoke, most with over 50,000 miles.
@@death2pc I think experience varies a lot. Clearly if your are a really good builder ur going to build a lot of muscle memory with the tension of spokes.
This is the best wheel tension video EVER!!!
This is brilliant, thank you so much!
Splendid video to understand the use of both the tool and the WTA.
So very detailed, yet easy to understand for the apt amateur to maintain wheels.
The WTA not only simplifies the work with the TM-1, the analysis, documentational and archive functions are ingenious!
Great tools, great service!
Just purchased a TM-1, very glad I found this youtube video. The online Park Tools URL app is an excellent free resource, customers can hold bike shops to accountability. This is a simple java script, there's alot of s/w that can d/l this script, then you can convert it into android through an app porting utility. If you're working on the same rim all the time, perform the spec once, print it out and just use excel with a simple multiplication formula. I'll be fabricating my own truing stand with dial gauges instead of eyeballing the gap with typical store bought units. If Park's TS2.2 was at least 35% cheaper I'd buy it, however my higher precision DYI stand will be under $150 all in (3 dial gauges, angle steel, hardware, 2 hrs labor).
Amazing tool, thank you so much ParkTool. I've use it for first time on by race bikes rear wheel. The spokes were creaking and loosed its tension. Its fanastic what the tool did to the wheel. Now with your tool i made the wheel like its just came out from the factory. Before i used only spoke wrench, testing the spokes with the fingers. As a result spokes were never perfect. But now they are fine tuned. Thank you!
This is.. amazing. Thank you all at Park so very much.
Thanks a lot for speaking at moderate speed :)
I bought this tool only because this nice tutorial video. A nice tutorial make to us easier to understand how to use a tool and avoid a lot of headache! Thanks!
I'm a newcomer to this aspect of bike maintenance. Thank you for creating products and the presentation of know-how to use them. With your good intentions, bicycling and the ownership/maintenance thereof are so much better appreciated.
Oh, let me add the elephant in the room - the wheel truing stand - now, also understood for what it brings to the process without really mentioning it. I see its importance: as a novice. I could have got caught up not recognizing an unsavable rim without being given a hint of the in-depth relationship between tension and causes of off-true.
Dadgum, that was an amazing video. High quality content, thank you.
this is one of the most informative videos on fixing wheel spoke issues ive ever watched! i should watch more park tool videos..
I saw bike-polo team use park tool bike repair stand. The gripping part is essential to keep good grip.
wow. Calvin, this is an excellent video. i am motivated to learn how to build wheels now. all i need is money for the tools ! for now, it's a spoke wrench, a wish, and a prayer every time i true a wheel. i do a pay what you can neighbourhood bike mechanic thing. i even wash every bike before i return it to the customer and do full tuneups, even if they just need a new tube. i get parts at cost from my local shop and pass the savings along ! I love bikes and my neighbourhood!
Brilliant video, thank you.
My head hurts... Will there be a test on this?
Excellent video, nonetheless. Thanks.
I've learned SO much on this channel! Thank you for the education!!
Thanks Calvin, youre a bicycle scientist.
a five star video, imo.
This is absolutely amazing and also insane at the same time!
great explanation!
You are a professional 🙂
After you guys set your brain buckets down for the day, I'd like buy you all a round of beers. Great product line. Keep 'em coming!
The best teacher ever!
Very helpful video and app! Thanks for the explanations.
Keep up the great instructional videos! It is appreciated! Best Regards!
You guys are amazing!
Great insight thanks. However I would like an example where spokes crosses each other, we always get these demos with almost no overlap between spokes. In my experience measuring spoke tension gets way more complicated when spokes overlaps/touches each other
Great video. I'm doing this now. I had an absolute perfectly true and dished wheel but had a few outliers on tension. When I adjusted tension it changed the true a lot. Starting to get a better understanding of how they all play in to each other.
Look at 15:15 . If the rim/hoop is bent, it is unlikely that you will achieve both a true wheel and tight tension tolerances. To prevent this, the spokes must have ideal tension from the start... but this is seldom the case with generic branded wheels. Upon realizing this, I am in the process of teaching myself how to build wheels. It might be worth it considering how I ride 😅
You are professional bike maintainer :) spoke tension metering and computer aided problem solving. I am a poor man, I just grip spokes to feel with hand. You have a point in truing a bent rim that it is not lasting true long. Maybe a poor man has to true it many times to save a wheel, i hope.
Thank you so much for this video, app, tool and nice presentation.Thank you Calvin.
Fascinating Tutorial. This sort of app really brings cycle mechanics to the 21st century.
I think a Bluetooth connected tensiometer would bring it into the 21st century. Typing is so 20th century.
If you were listening carefully just now, you would have heard me shouting "BLUETOOTH" from 7:30 onwards. The challenge would be to get the gadget to know which spoke it was on.
Fantastic video, thanks for sharing!
You guys make a very good Video.
Thanks
Outstanding work!
Your feel ,eye & hearing is better than any app for truing wheels.
Thank you so much, very appreciated video. As always Park Tool is the best.
Loved the vid. Very well done.
Very informative. TH-cam can be an awesome tool if you know what to look for.
Awesome so well explained!
thank you park tools
Park Tool it's exceptional as always
Excellent tutorial!
somehow i missed this video... very informative thanks Park Tool
Exellent Tool and and excellent demonstration
A big thank you!
Awesome app! Thanks for sharing.
Outstanding video. Very good tool.
Thanks ParkTool!! ;-)
Long live this app!
Sehr gut und hilfreich, regards from germany
SUPER, many thx!
Great video. But in terms of mm., what is the limit of acceptable out of round for a 26 in. wheel?
thanks a lot, I like, learn how to do by your Video, it very helpful !
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WOW! Bad Ass!!!
Thank you!
a bit simplistic. As soon as you adjust a spoke's tension it affects the tensions of multiple spokes; those spokes adjacent to it and also opposite it. Also, I've found with that tool, that you have to jiggle it to get an accurate reading. Jiggle it a bit till the reading is stable. Sometimes the reading doesn't change much, sometimes it changes a fair bit. This should be obvious if you think about it. Once you think you've finished tensioning the wheel, measure all the spokes again - you'll get a surprise 😄. The bad news; there's more work involved. The good news; the amount of adjusting needed does diminish. This is why I do my own work.
Thanks to this usefull and gratefull vido, ..Park Tool you are grateful , you are a grate teachers
Fantastic video.
Very useful video and explanation. Nice to see this kind of videos. Congrats ;)
Perfect! Thanks
Very helpful!
So usefull video. Thank you very much.
Love this channel !
Good work!
Can you Loosen and Tighten spokes with a deflated tire on or does the tire have to be removed to do this.???
thats a very clever system.
Спасибо! Все коротко и ясно!
Thank you!
A cheap and easy way to do the same, is to bang the spoke lightly with a metal tool, and then listen! If the tension is the same for all spokes, and the wheel is correctly sat up with no going up and down, or to the side - it will give the same sound.
I bought the TM-1 tensioner because it's a park tool and didn't even know how to use it. But now i do. Thanks for this video and for the great app!
I love this channel !!
Excellent explanation, thankyou guys from Park Tool, that helped me understanding the theory of truing rims, more than the practical stuff I do on mine, I'd like to have this guy truing my wheels! Nice mustache hahaha
I want to ask that even in rim brake the tension would be the same right and left side or the right should have more tension tnx more power to you
Very interesting thank you
Fantastic!
Great Video! I am still slightly confused as to the tension on one side of the rim vs the other. why would the load not be evenly distributed between left and right side? Thanks for these videos !!!
Good question. On most rear wheels and many disc bike front wheels the bracing angles are different as the hub flanges need to be offset to accomodate the gear cluster or the disc brake. The bigger the bracing angle the more it can pull the rim effectivly. When one side has more bracing angle, the smaller bracing angle needs to have a higher tension to keep up. So the side with less bracing angle has more tension than the one with a larger bracing angle.
What do you do if you have broken spokes but don't have the ability to fix them at the time?
One additional "marking" step would be to have the wheel in the stand, rotate the wheel, and mark the spoke measurement location on both sides for consistency.
Very nice. Tks
favorited this video, very very good. tysm!
That is so interesting.
Watching Calvin mess with the computer is strange. Just shows how much of an expert he is on the bikes themselves, he doesn't need that technology
That is spectacular! Thanks. Now I just have to buy the wheel truing stand and I am less anxious about spending the money.
Thank you park tool, Calvin andassociates