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Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £60.5 on Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 review we’re going to look at why it scores 9.3/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 645 products in the Tools category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

9.5

Price

9.6

Reviews

8.8

Overall

9.3

 

Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 reviews

See customer reviews at Chain Reaction Cycles:

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Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 Specification

Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 specs

Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1
Feature 1

Tight and uniform spoke tension if the key to a strong and long lasting wheel, and this innovative design takes the guess work out of achieving that perfect spoke tension

Other Tools found with this feature: 1

Feature 2

Fits almost any size, shape or material spoke

Other Tools found with this feature: 1

Feature 3

Gives you a measure of the relative and absolute spoke tensions within a wheel

Other Tools found with this feature: 1

Feature 4

Clear and easy to read gauge

Other Tools found with this feature: 1

Feature 5

A must for any serious wheel builder

Other Tools found with this feature: 1

Spec 1

Colour: Blue – Black

Other Tools found with this spec: 1

Price

£60.5

Number of Reviews

159

Review Score

4.6 / 5

Average score in category: 4.3

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  • Park Tool SSpoke Tension Meter TM-1. The key to wheels that are strong and reliable is having spokes that are properly and uniformly tensioned. The Tension Meter accurately and reliably measures the absolute tension of each of the spokes in a wheel, as well as the relative tension between all the spokes in a wheel Easy to use and priced affordably, it works on nearly any bicycle spoke-no matter what the diameter, material, or shape. Not just for the experienced mechanic, the TM is for anyone building or truing wheels, diagnosing wheel problems, or assembling new bikes. The TM includes a spoke gauge for measure the diameter of the common spokes, and a tension conversion table for 16 different spokes, including titanium and carbon. It’s a tool that belongs on every workbench. NOTE: The Spoke Tension Meter requires approximately 105mm (4 1/8-inch) of accessible spoke to read. Features: Tight and uniform spoke tension if the key to a strong and long lasting wheel, and this innovative design takes the guess work out of achieving that perfect spoke tension Fits almost any size, shape or material spoke Gives you a measure of the relative and absolute spoke tensions within a wheel Clear and easy to read gauge A must for any serious wheel builder Buy Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Product codes: 763477007865
  • QKTM1

No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Tools.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 645 different products in the Tools category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 270 products from Park Tool (although only 244 of the 270 are in the Tools category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Tools. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Park Tool. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Tools. There are 645 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 645, the average price is £28.56. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £0.99 and most expensive was £584.99.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Park Tool. The average price was £41.15 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £1.49 up to £499.99 with Park Tool products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Park Tool products that appear specifically in the Tools category. So you can see that the price of Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 at £60.5 is great value considering the average price of Park Tool Tools is £38.55 and the price varies from £1.49.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £60.5 which represents a £9.49 or 14% saving against RRP. If you think Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Tools too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 159 reviews scoring it 4.6 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Park Tool. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Tools category is 4.3 and the average score of products from Park Tool is 4.3 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Park Tool in the Tools category the average review score is 4.4.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 such a high overall score of 9.3 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are 159 reviews for Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 which score it 4.6, so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy Park Tool Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 or in fact any of the other Tools, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.