Originally Posted by
Iride01
Learn to tighten things just enough and you won't need a torque wrench. If what you tightened later loosens or slips then tighten it a little tighter next time.
Many of the torques specified are the maximum torque they don't want you to exceed. Not the torque you must be at.
It's a bicycle.
I worked at three northern and southern California bike shops from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Not one was in possession of a torque wrench.