Bushing Tools

8/3/2025

This is probably what I’m best known for, with bushing sizing tools specifically being at center stage. Although strangely, the sizing tools weren’t the first thing I came up with. The first mountain bike tool I actually ever thought of was the bushing removal tool. I worked at a shop in 2010 and I had to remove a set of bushings using their tool. The bushings were stuck in the lower casting and the slide hammer on the bushing removal tool just wasn’t enough to get the bushings out. As I was slamming the slide hammer, I immediately designed my bushing removal tool in my mind. Obviously it was heavily inspired by the Park Tool headset punch but it would be many years until I actually made the tool.

It wasn’t until 2017 that the need for a bushing removal tool arose again. By that point I had a tiny little milling machine and lathe. I made the bushing removal tool and the accompanying bushing sizing tool. At that time, I tapped the new bushings back in using a well fitting socket and a tape measure. Two years later I made an accompanying bushing insertion tool.

You can read the article I wrote about this from my old website. I actually still can’t believe it but from that horrible little web page article with terrible sideways pictures, I manufactured and sold so many bushing tools and people would just email me their orders to my hotmail email. The more I think about it today, the more unbelievable the entire thing is. There was no shopping cart on my old website.