Speaker: Hi guys. Okay, so those of you that are familiar with the channel are probably
sick to the back teeth of me banging on about these multitools. I never stop going onabout
them. Now, I thought I'd put my money where my mouth is and see how much of my bike I
can disassemble and reassemble using just one of these tools. Having got into suspension
depending on the success of the day, maybe that's another video but I thought it should
be pretty good fun. I hope you like it. I hope having a [unintelligible 00:00:30] bonus
as I show just how much you can do with the very basics. So let's see how we get on.
Okay, so my process I think I'm going to start at the front of the bike and just move my
way back so I'm going to take apart. Take the forks out. Clean them in there. Cranks,
hopefully, get most of the linkage apart. See how we go with that one. Hopefully, yes,
take the whole rear end apart but we're going to see how we go. How far do you guys think
I'm going to get? I'm thinking I'll be able to get most of it apart. My only worry is
when you need two tools to work against each other. But I think it'd be quite interesting.
To complement the multitool, which I think is a bike specific tool. I've also got some
grease which is necessary for assembling. Some blue towel. A microfiber cloth in case
of being generous and want to give anything a bit of a polish. As well as some things
that kind of stepping to more luxury side. Basically, I just got some things if I need
to kind of give things a thorough wipe down, degrease, et cetera. Or maybe just inhiberit--
Inhiberit? Or I need to inhibit any corrosion. I've got that sort of stuff but I think that's
more of a luxury than anything. I've also got a set of gloves just to stop
carting any muck and grime about the house. Before I get into it, I'm going to give you
a good look of the multitool. This is what we're dealing with. You can make up your mind
about how well you think I'm going to get on, but without much further ado, I think
we should get into it. I got my 6mm. The first part is disassemble,
so, for first victory is done. I'm just starting off. What I'm going to do is I'm going to
back the out mostly but not all the way. The reason I want to do that is when I come back
with these two bolts here. Which I would do. That's where a ratchet tool is so good. Just,
I always go on about it. It's about time I actually put my money where my mouth is and
actually did something with it. The reason I've done that made it nice and loose. You
can spread it out with your fingers. There we go. We're going to slide that top bit off.
Hopefully, spaces aren't going to go everywhere. Gently lower that down. Now, this is where
having the front brake disconnected is really useful because, well, it can come straight
out, okay. I'm going to give this a good wipe down and then we're going to move on to another
part of the bike. A bit of alcohol there just to get off most
of the dirt. Then we'll wipe it. Give them a real quick wipe down and inspect and remove.
A lot of time the noise coming from the front of your bike is because there's small bits
of grit and grime that are being crushed between these spaces over and over again. So, mechanically
the headset can be completely sound, but sadly, it makes it feel like you're being chased
down that stairs by a bag of spanners. Okay, so that's the fork out the bike.
I think the next thing we're going to go to is the cranks, okay. I'm just going to move
that around. You might have a set that's a pinch bolt. I think they sell ones like these
where the torque is actually in the human category as opposed to the Herculean category.
Mere mortals could get these ones undone with just an Allen key. There are some, it's like
some GXB or [unintelligible 00:04:43] where to get it binding up against that self-extracting
bolt, it does require quite a large amount of torque. Now, there's nothing wrong with
those systems that do use a self-extracting bolt but it probably is a limitation of a
smaller hand tube. You need some big old levers then. Oops, I dropped that. These probably
is asking a lot to put that amount of torque so kind of a smaller ratchet system, okay.
So be sensible. Don't just go crazy. Don't drop your bike parts and yes, off you go.
For this next bit, getting this crank off, you do need a small hammer which I don't have.
I'm just going to go for the case. I don't know if that's going to be enough. Yes. I
never doubted it for a second. [background noise]
That is the second area worked through. You need to get that a quick wipe down and then
we are on to the back of the bike. This is where things will start to get a little bit
interesting. I'm starting to-- then I'm letting the chain off. I might use maybe like a shoelace
or something on the quick link. Don't think if you guys ever seen that. You can pull them
together and that will engage it and then you can take the chain apart because having
that chain off will help me. Right. Get this wheel out and then we'll have
another think. Getting the rear wheel out. This one doesn't have the quick release lever
so it's time for the multitool again. I'm going to take the brake caliper off. I'm going
to take this off. I'm going to let them hang through. I'm going to cut them. I can put
some new cable ties on later. Then the rear end is free as a bird. I think in fact, if
I actually disconnect that piece of hardware there, I could slide the chain out. I wouldn't
even need a tool for the chain. That is my thinking. I'm going to get this off. Get that
off. Then just pull everything apart. I feel good.
[music] Just going to let that hang. Then, the shock.
[unintelligible 00:07:13] get this bolt out. Oh, the bottle needs to come as well. Okay,
so I got the shock out. Now if you use a new proof of recent years, they have this little
bearing covers which is great. It's a really good system but these things really can go
walkies, okay. Make sure you don't lose them. Put them somewhere safe. If you're in a dark
room or you've got slatted floor. You will never see them again though. Probably the
mountain bike equivalent of Lord Lucan, okay. We don't want that.
Removing this main pivot here. The bike is probably going to go a bit slack. What can
be good when you're removing, taking apart the rear ends of bikes is you can loosen the
bolts. You can pull it straight out if you need to. But just to stop the bike disintegrating,
just leave it in there. Just for a bit for security, okay.
That main pivot is loose and I want to get the chain out, but it actually can't come
through this. It's got to go through here while this I think isn't going to work but
it might. It depends if they're both 4mm's. That's a 4mm and please tell me this is a
3. No, it's a 4. Right, the dream might be compromised slightly
but we're going to see what we can do. See if I can get that to bind that maybe. No,
it's happy as Larry in there, [unintelligible 00:08:53] two 4mm's. Oh no. Oh my goodness.
I can't believe it. I never knew my thumbs were so strong or so grippy. I just [unintelligible
00:09:08]. Can I disassemble a whole bike with just my thumbs? That's the question.
Right, time to see if Iron Thumb Quinny can do it again. Oh, and he's done it again. The
crowd goes wild. Oh my God, I'm stoked. Well this, I thought the party was over.
But back on the road, absolutely stoked. Right, let's get this chain off. That's what we're
doing. Chain is coming off. Okay, it's like for that, hardware piece is coming out. It
can be a good idea as well just to put them together like I've done just now, okay. Because
then you know what order they're in hopefully. Oh yes. Oh no, washers everywhere but that's
okay because I got my man. Look at that. Yes. That's just going to live on the floor. [laughs]
Now that's done. I know this part is completely separate. Tease out this big old bolt, washers
are going to come out. There we go and just wiggle this back end off. There we go. We're
on the next piece here, this is a big one. Some linkages now, modern days that are really
well hidden, they look amazing, but sometimes taking them apart, you'd have to think a bit
more because these bolts are actually coming. See that, it comes from the inside, they have
opposites, so I had to come into it. Back to that one. I know it's going to disintegrate
in front of me, but I can't really do much about that now because I need to get the other
one. Here comes the other one. Check and then bring around. It's like that game with the
wire and you've got to take it over and it buzzes. It's a bit like that, but that is
another big piece of frame come apart courtesy of the multi-tool. Pop that down just there,
don't want to get any-- too much muck on the carpet. Well, they're spinning very smooth.
They look and then they don't really look great. They look like they've been [unintelligible
00:11:27] along with the Titanic, but operationally, they feel fine. Now the final piece. I'm a
bit worried here because I remember I did this lever quite short to get it really neat.
I remember it being really tight and even having enough space to poke it out the bottom.
I thought I shortened it and I thought next time I take this drop around, I'm going to
have to go right back to basics. Is there enough room? There is enough room. Oh my God.
Pull that up, kabam. Forget about that bit, there's nothing I can do. It is what it is
but look at this bit. Oh, la-la. Now let's get an arty-farty shot. [unintelligible 00:12:17]
laid out, so I can be proud as punch, and then we shall put it back together. I'm going
to start with the seat post, just putting a tiny, tiny, little bit of grease in there.
Some people don't like to grease it. I think it's absolutely fine. I think you've
got metal seat post in there, it basically protects that. There we go, and we can get
it back in the bike stand, which is good news but has a tactic this time around. I think
I'm just going to try and do it in reverse of what I did. I'm going to get those, the
rear end, back together as best I can, fresh grease everywhere. As part of the bearings,
it's really important that you want to give your bearings. Often they will still have
grease in there, so you want the [unintelligible 00:13:13] bangs to get into that grease, so
give it full rotations. If you can, you can make up a little bit of a bodge, but you can
make them a little head for your drill with just some tape or something over an old bit
and just spin it gently. You don't need to be wearing it out, but just to get all those
bearings through the grease again and you'd be surprised how long you can elongate the
life of a bearing by turning every now and then. Sounds silly, but it's a good tip.
[music] You can use assembly grease behind caps, such
as this on linkage systems because it will give the third hand which you obviously don't
have and they will rest later on just on that. [music]
The answer is yes, you can do a lot with just a multitool. I didn't get involved with these
ones here because they're really high torque and you needed two Allen keys to do it, but
I think we did most stuff to be fair. Now, maybe not the entire suspension, but I think
apart from that, honestly, I'm really impressed and my bike is now ready to rip. Guys, if
you like the content, please get in the comments below. What do you think? What do you think
was your surprise? For me, the biggest surprise was getting the whole linkage apart. I didn't
think I was going to be able to do that. Don't forget to like and subscribe and we'll see
you next time. Thank you, everyone.