Essential Tools For Servicing Your Disc Brakes

If you've recently purchased a road bike with disc brakes, chances are you'll need a few additional tools to make sure you can service your new set up and keep your brakes running smoothly. In this video, Ollie talks you through some essential tools you'll need to get your hands on if you're planning on maintaining your disc brakes yourself at home!

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[gcntech]

Do you have disc brakes or rim brakes? Let us know in the comments below!

[thomlarson]

One tool I’ve found invaluable is a hemostat clamp (ordered through Amazon) for removing and not losing the clip for the screw that retains the brake pads. I’ve never lost a clip since I started using a hemostat to hold on to them.

[tomahoks]

Disc brakes for life! One finger needed only to a full stop from any speed.

[ashendenm]

About the pad setting tool - Park Tool specifically notes that "Wedge-style piston tools, such as the PP-1.2, are not intended for use with ceramic pistons in Shimano road disc brake calipers." ... and here you are suggesting the exact opposite

[joonstrom]

Another essential maintenance tool: your phone, to watch gcn or Park tool how to maintenance videos step by step as you go along

[betosaltarelli]

Ollie, SRAM calipers are attached to the frame using Torx screws ;)

[PrzemyslawSliwinski]

6:00 - I use a 10mm Allen key to reset pistons (Formula CR3).

[DT]

I like how he is doing a video on disk breaks with a rim brake bike in the background

[Kolomy]

Dedicated, dedicated, dedicated...
Like that brake cleaner, isopropyl alcohol does the job

[jascollinscork]

Ollie a few weeks you were tryed out MTB disc breaks on your road bike just like some of the Pro's were is there going to be a follow up of that to come or did I miss your opinion on

[markfreeman]

Essential? Hmmm! I'm not so sure. I've used a soft hammer to knock in the barb and a Stanley knife to cut hoses on a number of Shimano systems without any issues. The Park Tool multitool sure looks good tho but I reckon I'll be disappointed when I look up the price. Enjoyable video all the same.

[StanislavGrabchev]

Thank you rim brakes for saving me money, not have to buy all the things 👍

[markusmencke]

If you need to pry apart your pads, use a thin knife. Like a butter knife or better a pocket knife blade.
You should check the pads afterwards, though.

[ResilientTim]

Agree with the nice brew as an additional tool, but not that type. Can GCN brand a proper brew? Keep with the same dark color with a coffee finish, but more along the lines of a stout or bitter.

[BenFerber]

In a video a few weeks ago you used a crow foot attachment to a torque wrench to get your hose retaining bolts to the correct torque. I was searching for that same tool but couldn’t find one! Where did you get yours?

[fabianbv]

How do you recommend to proceed with the recycling of the mineral disc oil when substituting it?

[jonaspedersen]

#1 - Not needed, use a mallet (if it goes wrong, you only need to cut about 0.5cm off and put in a new plug
#2 - Especially not needed, just use a knife (most kits comes with two small plastic "holders" that you clamp onto the hose and then cut.
#3 - Good idea to have, but still cheap and easy to make your own.
#4 - Ofc! This tool is not even close to be a disc-break specific tool.
#5 - No idea, never been in a situation where this was needed.
#6 & 7 - Non-discbreak specific tools that almost everyone owns, if not can be bought a LOT cheaper than the fancy Park Tools that this "commercial" has turned into.
#8 - Just use a flathead with a cloth, not that hard to do right.
#9 - Just use isopropyl alcohol... Costs about 1/3 of the mucoff thingy he's trying to sell.

Most of this can be done without or with simple alternatives almost everyone has in their house. Disc-breaks bikes are a bit more work than rim's, but they do NOT need to be as expensive that this product-placement-crap tells you it should...

[antontejada]

Coffee! The most important tool of the bunch! 😁☕

[farshidhashemi]

Is this where we ask you Tech questions even if unrelated to this video? Are there chain lubes optimized for temperature? I know there are for wet or dry conditions. What about for cold? For examples temperatures between 0 and 10 deg C. I have noticed my chain (regularly cleaned and lubed) is noisy when I do early morning rides in those temps but later in the day when it’s over 10 deg C, the noise goes away.

[santiago]

For the spacer i prefer use a rule to make space.