--- product_id: 3591761 title: "Park Tool TM-1 Spoke Tension Meter | bike-repair-tools" brand: "park tool" price: "162918CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/3591761-park-tool-tm-1-spoke-tension-meter-bike-repair-tools store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Easy-to-read mechanical gauge Universal spoke compatibility Precision tension measurement Park Tool TM-1 Spoke Tension Meter | bike-repair-tools **Brand:** park tool **Price:** 162918CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > ⚙️ Master your wheel tension like a pro—don’t let uneven spokes slow you down! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Park Tool TM-1 Spoke Tension Meter | bike-repair-tools by park tool - **How much does it cost?** 162918CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/3591761-park-tool-tm-1-spoke-tension-meter-bike-repair-tools) ## Best For - park tool enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted park tool brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Lifetime Reliability:** Made in the USA with rebuildable, recalibratable design for enduring performance. - • **Universal Compatibility:** Works seamlessly with steel, aluminum, titanium, and carbon fiber spokes—one tool for all your wheels. - • **Intuitive Mechanical Gauge:** Quickly read spoke deflection and convert to tension with the included chart or app. - • **Pro-Level Wheel Maintenance:** Essential for home mechanics and pros to diagnose, true, and build wheels with confidence. - • **Pinpoint Spoke Tension Accuracy:** Get consistent, even spoke tension for flawless wheel builds every time. ## Overview The Park Tool TM-1 Spoke Tension Meter delivers precise spoke tension readings across nearly all spoke materials and sizes. Featuring a mechanical gauge and conversion chart, it enables accurate wheel building, truing, and maintenance. Built in the USA with a durable, rebuildable design, it’s the trusted choice for both professional workshops and dedicated home mechanics. ## Description The Park Tool TM-1 Spoke Tension Meter is an essential tool for achieving that proper tension, and belongs on the workbench of anyone building or truing wheels, diagnosing wheel problems, or assembling new bikes. The reading of the TM-1 can be used to help estimate the relative tension of a wheel's spokes, identifying areas with high or low tension. Using the included printed table or the Park Tool Wheel Tension App, this measurement can be converted to kilograms-force in order to calculate the overall tension of a wheel and ensure that it is at the proper level. The Wheel Tension App also features interactive tools to help visualize and analyze a variety of data based on the TM-1's readings. Accurately measures the following spoke materials: steel (round and bladed), aluminum (round and bladed)*, titanium (round and bladed)*, Spinergy PBO, and Mavic R2R carbon fiber. *NOTE: conversion data only available for select sizes of aluminum and titanium spokes. The TM-1 is made in the USA and is able to be completely rebuilt and recalibrated, for a lifetime of reliable use. ## Features - Accurate spoke‑tension readings: Measures the tension in each spoke so you can build, true, and service wheels with more consistent, even spoke tension. - Works on almost any bicycle spoke: Designed to give kilogram‑force readings for nearly any bicycle spoke, regardless of material, diameter, or shape, so one tool covers most wheel builds. - Easy‑to‑read mechanical gauge: Simple mechanical indicator shows how much the spoke deflects under load, which you then match to the included chart to read actual tension. - Includes tension conversion chart: Supplied with a printed conversion table that lets you turn the meter’s readings into tension values in kilograms-force for different spoke sizes and types. - Essential for wheel building & maintenance: A dedicated spoke‑tension tool for wheel building, truing, and diagnosing wheel issues—useful for both home mechanics and professional workshops. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Asin | B000OZDIGY | | Best Sellers Rank | #135,947 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors) #26 in Bike Spoke Tools #3,493 in Bike Components & Parts | | Brand Name | Park Tool | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (906) 4.7 out of 5 stars | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00763477007865 | | Included Components | TM-1 spoke tension meter tool | | Item Dimensions | 5.75 x 2 x 8.5 inches | | Item Type Name | Spoke Tension Meter | | Item Weight | 3.52 ounces | | Manufacturer | Park Tool | | Material Type | Multi | | Model | 128972 | | Part Number | QKTM1 | | Unit Count | 1 Count | | Upc | 763477007865 | | Warranty Description | Limited Warranty | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Park Tool - **Power Source:** Nicht zutreffend - **Use for:** Arm - **Display Type:** Nicht zutreffend - **Size:** One Size - **Age Range (Description):** Adult - **Item Weight:** 3.52 ounces - **Model Name:** Spoke Tension Meter TM-1 - **Manufacturer:** Park Tool - **Global Trade Identification Number:** 00763477007865 ## Images ![Park Tool TM-1 Spoke Tension Meter | bike-repair-tools - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81dozQhiwVL.jpg) ![Park Tool TM-1 Spoke Tension Meter | bike-repair-tools - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81f6ssSMuNL.jpg) ![Park Tool TM-1 Spoke Tension Meter | bike-repair-tools - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81jfQ3XWMPS.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Tool for Tuning Bicycle Wheels, Highly Recommend *by on Reviewed in the United States September 10, 2015* I recently went to a downhill mountain bike park. These parks, while fun are quite brutal on your bike. My recent experience left me with busted rear wheel. It was busted in the sense that while riding you could hear all sorts of pinging noises coming from the wheel. I tried to tighten up any loose spokes while I was at the park but ultimately it was time for another solution. I didn't have money for a new wheel and the last time I brought my wheel to a shop I was less than happy with the results. Chances are you may be in the same situation hence the reason you are reading this review.I purchased this item knowing that fixing my wheel would not be easy but I do have a somewhat mechanical background and access to the internet so I figured this was my most affordable solution. The tool arrived in a timely manner and was packaged appropriately (typical Amazon, keep up the good work). The device came with a simple, east to read set of instructions. The device was well built and felt durable, I was initially taken back as the size in person was much larger than what I had expected based off the pictures. I used the device to check the tension on each of my spokes and Park has a web page that will let you input the specs for each spoke and it will tell you where the wheel is weak basically. I think the hardest part for me was trying to figure out the specs for my particular spokes. That was very frustrating (not Parks fault though). After spending about an hour with the device I became quite comfortable using it and even got into a nice rhythm using it. I re-tensioned the wheel while it was on the bike because I did not have a wheel truing stand (I really don't think it is necessary unless you are building a wheel from scratch.). I found that setting the tension is much like tuning a guitar in the sense that when you tighten one spoke you loosen another. My advice is to adjust all of them a little bit at a time and continue going back over them until the tension is set vs. trying to get them all set on the first try. To summarize, I have a fancy new tool which was well worth the money and I have a nice tight and straight rear wheel and ready for the trails. If you are not afraid of a little challenge and some elbow grease I would highly recommend trying this out. I thought it was a bit pricey but it has already saved me a trip to the bike shop not to mention a new rear wheel. It will also help me keep my wheels in tune which will lengthen the lifespan of the wheels. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great spoke tension meter for 99.9% of riders, mountain or road *by on Reviewed in the United States August 16, 2015* Let's hit the first question off the bat; Do you need this doo-dad to properly build a wheel or keep your wheels in good working order?The answer is it depends upon how close you wish to be to the bleeding edge.Mechanics have been building bike wheels for about 200 hundred years now (dating back to before the early velocipede designs), usually without the benefit of a spoke tension gauge. And for decades, racing wheels used in everything from the Tour de France to serious downhill competitions have been built without spoke tension meters as well. That is because mechanics overbuilt their wheels for the riding style and course, and their fatigue limit was sufficiently far from their elastic limit. (spokes that are tensioned too high are too close to their elastic limit, or that of the rim) Likewise, if you wish to build your own wheels and follow some basic safety factor limits when building a wheel, then a tension gauge is not important. That said, in today's world, there is always that rider out there who is 200 lbs (90.7 kg) and who wants a 24 spoke radially laced front wheel on a 330 gram rim. If bleeding edge riding is your style or you are trying to save 150 grams on your carbon fiber road or mountain bike or you want to push it right to the physical limits, then a spoke tension gauge becomes essential.This Park Tools TM-1 gauge works by using a spoke diameter gauge to measure the middle (or butted part, if your spokes are such) part of a spoke (or you could use precision calipers) and then applying the the tool so that the spoke runs between the two fixed posts and the moveable post. The arrow at the top will point to a number on the graduated scale and you then refer to the separate conversion table to see what kilograms of force (kgf) measurement this corresponds to. For most wheels, you want somewhere between 80 and 130 kgf. Although, this value can vary depending upon the exact riding application.I am not a professional or shop mechanic, but I do build wheels for myself and others that join our off road riding group. I have used this gauge for about twenty wheel builds over the last five years or so. I find it to work fairly well. My older mountain biking wheels (rim brake) are often set up with Mavic 32 hole X517 rims and are typically radially laced in the front and three cross drive/radial lace non-drive in the back. While my newer rims are often 32 hole DT Swiss, Mavic X317 disc or Stans racing rims. I can usually tune by hand and by sound my wheels so that no spoke is 20% above or below the spoke average of the entire wheel (this is a standard reference limit for bike wheels), but the TM-1 really helps me to keep my older wheels at right around 100 kgf and my newer disc rims at about 110 kgf. And these values are right in the happy middle between allowing for a long fatigue life while maintaining ample tension so that if one spoke breaks, the wheel does not taco and I can ride back to the trail head. Those tension levels also prevent fatigue at the rim eyelets and ensure long rim life.Are than any negatives about the TM-1? Not really, but I do find the spoke diameter gauge to be cheaply made. I much prefer to use my Neiko digital caliper when measuring spokes. I also wish that Park Tool would include a standard guide for major manufacturers in their conversion table. The values for a 1.5 mm butted generic spoke from China and one from DT or Sapim are not the same. (Although, you can find these exact values online) And because the gauge is a calibrated spring, I suggest any owner send it back to Park Tool every 25 wheel builds or so, so that exact calibration is maintained. However, those are relatively small quibbles.Thanks to the TM-1, I have never had a wheel taco so far or a spoke break. While this gauge is not essential to wheel building for most riders who are not bleeding edge weight weenies, it does allow the home builder to have some quantitative idea of how their wheels are doing. And for me, that means longer wheel life and no problems on the trail. Five stars in my book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It worked great *by on Reviewed in the United States March 22, 2012* I really knew very little about wheel building, I have replaced spokes, and tighten a few, but trueing wheels has led to difficulties. I thought if I had a tension meter it would make the job easier.When the Park Tool arrived I metered all my front wheel spokes. This took under 15 minutes. Than I started to spin the wheel. When I noticed a high side I would meter the opposite spokes and see which spokes had a low reading. One of the spokes nearby always had a low reading. Since I knew what the average spoke tension was I would tighten to that spec. Just by doing this method I took care of the low readings.I now have all of the spokes on the front wheel at even tension. What startled me was the rear wheel that was running true had several very low tensioned spokes. I was able to get even tension on the rear wheel also. The drive side being just a bit higher.You can really feel the diffence on my bike. The brakes can now be adjusted very close. Couldn't of done it without this meter. Listening to the sound of a spoke or trying to feel the tightness has never been possible for me.The tool is very easy to use, and like all Park Tools it is well made. The price was great. It was also shipped quickly. ## Frequently Bought Together - Park Tool TM-1 - Spoke Tension Meter Tool - Park Tool Bicycle Spoke Wrench Set - SW-0, SW-1, SW-2, & SW-3 - Park Tool Wag-4 Professional Wheel Alignment Gauge --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/3591761-park-tool-tm-1-spoke-tension-meter-bike-repair-tools](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/3591761-park-tool-tm-1-spoke-tension-meter-bike-repair-tools) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-08-06*