This is a YouTube video made for this thread!
10 Ridiculous Bike Tools You Do NOT Need (but want...)
Actually they're not all ridiculous, or ridiculously expensive, but some are!
I really want the Abbey Tools Truing Stand, but I wouldn't spend the money needed for the Park one, let alone this model! Very nice and shiny, but stupidly costly.
If you want to see some
really sexy tools for wheel building, pay a visit to Arup Sen in Byne Road, Sydenham.
He built all of the wheels I've had on the Pompino.
He uses a
German-made P&K Lie Special250 truing stand. It knocks the Parktool and Abbey Tools ones into a cocked hat.
He also has a hand operated machine which cuts blank spokes to length before cutting a thread onto them in one operation.
He is a self-confessed wheel building nerd.
As well as being a really nice guy.