Reviews over the
Park Tool TM-1

Park Tool TM-1
4.6 / 5
Average from 91 reviews
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5 / 5

With this, I will make my wheels myself from now on.

- Sjoerd, 6 September, 2025

Simple but reliable. Works pleasantly. Gives confidence. Used it to self-spoke a wheel for the first time, went perfectly.

Pros & Cons

Complete with tension chart and spoke thickness gauge
Quality as you would expect from Park Tools
Wheel tension app online
Automatic translation

5 / 5

Indispensable tool for straightening wheels

- Nick, 5 January, 2025

Perfect tool for checking spoke tension. Good indication with supplied table and spoke thickness gauge.

Pros & Cons

Easy to use
Lots of extra info on the Parktool website
Table + spoke thickness gauge included
Automatic translation

5 / 5

Great device that lives up to its higher price

- René, 27 December, 2024

I had my first broken spoke ever and thought: this is a great time to finally learn how to replace a spoke myself. So tensioning spokes turns out not to be difficult at all. You just need to have the right tools, OK, and know which spokes you need. They come cheaper, but this is a really good, accurate one and with the app included, it's easy to correct all the spokes in your wheel to the right tension.

Pros & Cons

Convenient app
Easy to use
Reliable
Expensive
Automatic translation

4 / 5

Great for balancing your wheel properly

- Arie, 11 October, 2023

Meets expectations

Pros & Cons

easy to use
no good indication of spoke tension
reasonable price
https://www.parktool.com/en-int/wta
table is tricky, but there also park tool online tool
Automatic translation

5 / 5

Working like a pro

- Franck, 5 August, 2022

Indispensable for checking after re-radiation or simply for re-tensioning spokes.

Pros & Cons

Ease of use
Product quality
Video park Tool
Calibration
Automatic translation

5 / 5

Useful when aligning wheels.

- Ivo, 6 April, 2021

Useful when aligning wheels, you easily remove the errors from your wheel

Pros & Cons

Easy to use
Automatic translation

5 / 5

Great tool for measuring spoke tension

- Jan-Paul, 3 February, 2021

In order not to rely solely on hearing or feeling, I purchased this Park Tool TM-1. Of course, it is good to read the manual carefully and realise that besides human error, systematic and random errors also affect the measurement accuracy. Keeping that in mind, I can only say that this device has done a fine job in helping me accurately perform the distribution of spoke tension across the wheel.

Pros & Cons

easy to use
Park Tool website with explanation
table and spoke thickness gauge added
protective cover missing
Automatic translation

4 / 5

does what needs to be done and suspects that this precision will already be much better than by feel or ear

- Johan, 17 December, 2020

Pros & Cons

ease of use
price
table incl
I cannot enter the correct spoke thickness in the app
Automatic translation

1 / 5

Unreliable

- Jac, 28 November, 2020

The device does not give reliable values to deliver precision work.The values are not reproducible! The device barely exceeds or not at all if you aim a wheel with the necessary fingerspitzengefühl.Ma.w. it adds nothing! Moreover, the zero setting is not correct so you already start wrong,Moreover, Park-Tool refers to reference values that you have to request from the manufacturer,well they never ever give them,at least not to me.In summary the device is a flop for a lot of money.

Pros & Cons

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Automatic translation

5 / 5

A good tool

- Pascal, 27 September, 2020

Pros & Cons

No downsides
Automatic translation

5 / 5

It's a Park Tool what else can one say?

- Peter, 7 November, 2019

Pros & Cons

It's a Park Tool
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