Beginners - Tools you Need

[MarylandFlat]

I'm not sure what to think about the roller bar ends. Learning bw hikers I shredded grips, bar ends and levers. I'm alot better at keeping the bars off the ground now but I bet these would have saved me some parts.

[karubozu]

I'm not sure what to think about the roller bar ends. Learning bw hikers I shredded grips, bar ends and levers. I'm alot better at keeping the bars off the ground now but I bet these would have saved me some parts.

In the pic, I've had these, what I called "roll-ends" since 1991.  I haven't always been using them and I still suck at hitch hikers, but they've taken a beating.  Those are the same 20 year-old bearings.  At a hardware store, what I found were "expansion nuts" that would slip into the bars.  A 3/8" bolt with washer and Suzue rear hub bearing was screwed in and it was perfect.  Eventually, bar tubing got thicker and the nuts wouldn't fit so I afro-engineered another way to stick them in with two cone nuts from the same hub and a strip of rubber.  A few years later, I removed the adjuster and lever from some old tech7-7s and screwed in a bolt with a lock washer and Suzue front hub bearing for rolling on the front side.

"Cheating" to some, but I saved some bars, grips and levers, and now I only use them to play around and let friends get their thrills rolling hikers, and I still suck at them.

(and I think these are better than BH's)

[karubozu]

I've always been able to remove/install tires without using levers.  It was a lot harder with triple-wall rims though.

[DBZ]

Pedro's tire levers are the best: a little wider than most for better leverage and easier on your hands.

[rawchild]

Tire patch kit and one of these.