So can anyone comment on what brand of bike tools most bike shops use today? In the 1980s/90s, Park was dominant in the three shops I worked at. Some shop owners may have had a Campy tool set--but that stayed exclusively in the wooden box, to be gazed upon wistfully by us lowly minimum-wage-paid wrenches who weren't allowed to touch it. My first shop eventually got Snap-On combination wrenches and screwdrivers, but that's it. Park filled out the rest of the pro bike tools--headset and BB wrenches, cone wrenches, chain breakers, etc. And definitely the Y-hex and socket wrenches--the two tools we used most often. Maybe next to the Shimano cable cutters.
Is Park as dominant today in actual bicycle shops, or have other tool makers taken up some market share?
Last edited by smd4; 05-18-23 at 07:51 AM.