Long Needle Nose Pliers

Long needle-nose pliers are the tool that turns “I can’t reach it” into “got it.” The 61 mm jaw length adds an inch over the short sibling; the serrated pipe-grip section near the pivot adds bite for round stock. Together they cover the bike-shop jobs where reach and grip both matter: fishing a stuck shift wire through internally-routed frame ports, gripping the round shaft of a stripped quick-release lever, or pulling a folded inner-tube valve through a deep rim well.

What it does well

The 2 mm tip is identical to the short-jaw sibling, so precision tip work is unchanged. The 61 mm jaw is what unlocks the bike-shop jobs that the short jaw can’t reach: anything deeper than the front face of a brake caliper, anything past the lower headset cup, anything inside a frame port that has clearance for a tool but not for your hand.

The serrated pipe-grip section is the meaningful design difference. Round stock like a rounded fastener shaft, a brake-housing ferrule, or the body of a spoke nipple needs a grip that grabs across multiple points, not just at the tips. The pipe-grip section is sized to the cylindrical diameters that come up in cycling work; the difference between rolling off a workpiece and getting a real hold.

Where it earns its space in the bike shop

• Internal cable routing. Long enough to reach a shift wire that fell short of an exit port.
• Stripped quick-release lever shafts. The pipe-grip section bites the round body.
• Rim-well valve retrieval. Reach past the rim wall to grab a valve stem that turned inside out.
• Cable-end strand grip. Long enough to get past the brake-caliper body to a cable end.
• Derailleur spring manipulation. Jaw length reaches the body of the spring at full reach.

When this one beats the shorter sibling

• Reach is the constraint, not maneuverability.
• The job involves round stock (the pipe-grip section earns its keep).
• You’re working through a frame port or past a fixed component.

Pick the 38 mm short jaw for tight-space precision; pick the 45° bent-tip when the access angle is the constraint.

Specs

• Jaw length: 61 mm
• Tip diameter: 2 mm
• Construction: drop-forged jaws, heat-treated
• Features: side cutter at pivot, serrated pipe-grip section
• Handles: dual-density grip

Made in Slovenia, since 1919

Unior has been forging hand tools in Zreče since 1919, and is the official technical partner of multiple World Tour and downhill teams. The serrated pipe-grip section is a deliberate design choice on the long-jaw plier; we make the short-jaw sibling without it on purpose, because the geometry of a short tool is wrong for round stock and the serration would just get in the way of precision tip work. Tool-by-tool decisions like this are what separate a thoughtful tool line from a catalog of size variations.

Pro tip from our mechanics

The 61 mm length is the inch of reach that turns “I need to pull the bottom bracket to access this” into “I can do it through the frame port.” When pulling that internal-routing job, the bent-tip variant of this plier is often the cleaner answer: Pliers for bike work →.