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BikersToolbox

Every number on this site comes from a formula you can read.

Spoke length, tension balance, frame size. No sign-up, nothing stored on a server, and every tool tells you where its assumptions come from.

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  • In range
  • Above range
  • Not measured

Spoke tension around a rear wheel. The drive side runs tight, the non-drive side slack — that asymmetry is the whole problem wheelbuilding solves.

Drag a spoke to change its tension

The toolbox

Every tool here is finished and working. Upgrades is the part still being built — it will pull live listings from Hungarian bike shops.