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Park Tool TM-1 Spoke Tension Meter | 
 enlarge | Brand: Park Tool
Category: Sports
List Price: $88.99
Buy New: $50.95
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 5221
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 5.8 x 2.3
MPN: TM-1
Model: TM-1
UPC: 763477007865
EAN: 0763477007865
ASIN: B000OZDIGY
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Measures the absolute tension of each of the spokes in a wheel | | • | The TM-1 works on nearly any bicycle spoke | | • | Used for building or truing wheels, diagnosing wheel problems, or assembling new bikes | | • | Measures relative tension between all the spokes in a wheel |
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Product Description
Accurate and reliable spoke tension measurement tool. For use on all spoke diameters, materials, shapes.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
 No More Guessing and Hopefully No More Broken Spokes May 7, 2009
D. J. Mccartney (Lynnwood, Wa)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The TM-1 Spoke Tension Meter works very well. I commute by bike every day to work, and among my three road bikes that I rotate through (set up differently for weather and load), was popping spokes to the tune of about 1 or 2 a month, mostly due to what I perceive to be overtorque on some of the spokes. Now I have torqued my spokes at the lower end of the recommended range and have yet to pop a spoke, and it is reassuring to know that they all are torqued to the same value. It does take a little bit of give and take to get the wheel trued, but with just a little bit of effort you can adjust the tension to the correct range, then make minor adjustments of individual spokes to get the wheel to spin true. You end up with a much more consistent torque range throughout the entire wheel, which eliminates overstress (hot spots) on overtorqued spokes.
Park Tool Tension Meter TM-1 is a COOL TOOL! November 30, 2009
M. Bennett (Outdoors)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Park Tool Tension Meter TM-1 is a COOL TOOL!
Ordered directly from Amazon and recieved quickly! Good Deal!
I strongly recommend this tool. It's sturdy, reliable and simple to use! The instructions are perfectly clear and not complicated. It takes less than 3 minutes to test each spoke in a 36 spoke wheel. Can be used on the bike, or off. The trouble of it is, that it's so easy to get your wheels to factory specs, it makes you think you know what you're doing:)
I cannot perceive why anyone would pay more for a spoke tension meter. There is a 40% leeway in adjustments, so splitting hairs is not necessary! (-20% to +20% of ideal tension)
I see talk on bicycle blogs about re-calibrating the tension meters, and meters costing $600! If you're not working for NASA or a scientific laboratory, don't be concerned with splitting hairs. This meter can be re-calibrated, but once you use it, you'll see that re-calibration will probably never be necessary.
Point of this report is that you will enjoy much less trouble (down time) because your wheels are factory strong at all times. Under-tensioned spokes cause spokes to break. One can have ALL SPOKES SOUND THE SAME and all spokes can be under-tensioned, so the 'sound technique' is not a valid way to judge true tension of your spokes! So I recommend that you don't go for the sound! Go for known specifications and your spokes will stop breaking!
I was paying a bicycle shop to replace the spokes on my mountain bike and I learned with this tool that the bicycle shop did not check the tension on my other spokes and that their work was a nightmare! No wonder the spokes kept breaking! Now, I ride the trails and my bike is in one piece at the end!
Do yourself a favor and get this tool! You'll be passing the guys on the trail that are limping back with broken spokes that use 'music notes' to tension their spokes! Let'em make music slowly, while you conquer the trail!
Great tool April 29, 2010
M. Weaver
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Super product, was very useful in building wheels. Well made precision tool and comes with a spoke guage and tension chart. With it you can get consistent spoke tension. Would be better if it came with a plastic storage case since they recommend you keep it in the box when not using it to protect it from damage. Highly recommend it.
Got-to-have product for wheels May 30, 2010
Gary Willcox
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you work with your wheels at all with spoke tensioning, truing, building, etc., this is a must. As this product was arriving, I did a test and trued a 28 spoke road wheel with round spokes as best as I could. I'm not a bike mechanic, just an enthusiast. The wheel was spot on. When I got the Park Meter, I checked all the spokes. All where within tolerance, but two where 2/3 of what they should have been. It is also a great way to get a start on a good wheel true. Once you know the spokes are in the ballpark, you can start to true from there. Why bother if you don't have a baseline. I go thru and get them all close, not paying too much attention to true, then go back and get true, round, and dish spot on. Amazon is the absolute cheapest anywhere for this product. You can get very quick using this product after little use. In addition to the instrument you purchase, there are two more things in the box -- a reference chart, and a spoke gauge tool. The theory is that you look up what the tension should be for the type and thickness/diameter of spoke on the wheel, then cross reference the range of generic number that reads on the tool. The needle on the tool doesn't have units (because of diameter, blade thickness, and type), but when you look up what type and size spoke you are working with, the number on the meter just becomes a reference point. Don't just true your wheels on your bike using your brake pads, etc. If you don't start out with a real truing stand, get an old bike fork and drill a hole in a block of wood, mount the fork up-side-down, and use a spring clamp with a blade of plastic or aluminum strip/plate as the index. To work with a rear wheel, use the Q/R skewer to clamp it outside of the fork like you would on an inexpensive one-armed truing stand. Then save up for that $200 truing stand you want.
Works great for building unicycle wheels March 16, 2009
Corbin Dunn (Los Gatos, CA, USA)
I've built two 36" unicycle wheels using this tension meter. It was easy to use and works great. I'm definitely not a professional, but it has given me a great wheel built that wouldn't have lasted as long if I did use a tension meter.
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