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Radar Roundup: Blue Lug Bike Chino, Kruch Tauntaun Fat Hardtail, Wheelie Wrench X Dynaplug, Transit Packable Puffer, Granite Airtag Mount, The Great Basin, and Life Beyond Paralysis
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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Radar Roundup: Farewell Atalaya Plus Plus Bag, Mosaic MT-2 Ti Hardtail, Swift Olliepack Seat Bag, PNW Pebble Tool Review, Wolf Tooth Lock On Grips, WTB 40mm Vulpine Grav Grav Tires, and Four Ladies on a Bikepacking Trip!
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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Radar Roundup: Riv Wrenches, Sage Storm King GP, LaRon Wool, Agave Pack, Romanceur Video, Along For The Ride, and a Look Inside Lolo Racks
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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Radar Roundup: 44RN Sunglasses, Link Wrench, Bumper Bar, MASH Steel Bikes, Standert Stichsäge, and Back To Basics
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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You Can Now Customize Wolf Tooth Pack Pliers
You can now customize Wolf Tooth’s popular Pack Pliers with a personalized message and design for the cycling enthusiast in your life. With its new custom web platform, you can choose from five different design templates, three fonts, and anodized bolt color. Normally, custom lasering is only available for bulk orders, but for this holiday season Wolf Tooth is opening it up to everybody.
These custom Pack Pliers will be available until December 1st or until they sell out. This ensures Wolf Tooth’s team in Minnesota can guarantee to have yours lasered, assembled, and shipped in time for Christmas…
See more at Wolf Tooth.
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Abbey Bike Tools Announce Three New Tools
Abbey Bike Tools manufactures its entire tool catalog in Bend, Oregon and today, we’ve got three new tools to announce on its behalf. The Saw Guide ($100) assists in cutting exact lines on your steerer. The guide is two-sided and is compatible with 1″ and 1.125″ steer tubes. Next up is the DUB Crank Dust Cap Tool ($30) which loosens and tightens those pesky DUB bottom bracket dust caps. Perhaps the cleverest design is the Lever Setter ($35) which when used in conjunction with the Abbey Bike Tools HAG to help align your brake levers and shifters.
Abbey Makes great tools with a favorite being the 4-Way Multi-Tool ($40). See the entire catalog at Abbey.
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Wolf Tooth’s 8-Bit Tool Kit
Sometimes videos speak louder than words and Wolf Tooth’s new video showcasing the functionality of the 8-Bit Tool Kit is one of those times. There are three tools in the new 8-Bit System: 8-Bit Chainbreaker + Utility Knife Multi-Tool, 8-Bit Tire Lever + Rim Dent Remover Multi-Tool, and 8-Bit Pack Pliers. A total of 22 functions between the three tools will keep you rolling to the next town or trailhead.
See the full collection at Wolf Tooth.
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Silca’s New 3D Printed Shop Tools
If you’re a contestant in the popular #ToolBoxWars or follow @ToolBoxWars and love 3D printed tools, then look no further than Silca’s new line of 3D-printed titanium tools including chain whips, hammers, and lock ring tools. They’re not cheap but hey, they’re titanium. See the full line and details at Silca.
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Enter to Win an Abbey Bike Tools Team Issue Toolbox and Help Raise Money for the Grow Cycling Foundation
Our friends at Abbey Bike Tools have their head in the right place with this giveaway:
“When the Grow Cycling Foundation started in the Summer of 2020 it was something that caught the eye of us here at Abbey. Grow’s goals weren’t small, and they would definitely need some help to accomplish their first big one, building a pump track in Los Angeles with the goal of bringing a more diverse group of people into cycling. So, we hit them up to see how we could help. Pump tracks do not come cheap, especially when you want to build them in a metro area like Los Angeles.
We have donated one of our Team Issue Toolboxes for a sweepstakes that is happening through the
month of February. Our goal is to raise a modest $10,000 dollars, 100% of which will go to Grow Cycling Foundation. The recipient will not only get one of the most sought after items in our range, but also an hour with the Abbey Ambassador Team featuring World Cup mechanics John Hall from Intense Factory Racing, Brad Copeland from Scott-SRAM, Verg from Scott USA and Jason from Abbey. There are decades of peak race and event service between this group and the tech advice that can come from this session is hard-earned and priceless.”
Enter here* to win the following:
-1 Team Issue Toolbox
-1 Hour with Abbey Ambassador Team (aka the best in the mechanic business)
*The sweepstakes is open to the US and Canada with the exception of New York and Quebec.
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Wolf Tooth’s New 8-Bit Pack Pliers
Wolf Tooth’s Pack Pliers are a very clever way to keep a chain maintenance kit handy while out on a ride and their new 8-Bit Pack Pliers just upped the ante with a whole new level of functionality. The 8-Bit Pack Pliers are capable of 17 functions via eight attachments that are nested neatly inside the handle of master link pliers. The whole system stays nested thanks to a series of magnets and each of these attachments fit inside an 8mm detent swivel head with a 4mm opening for the various hex bits. On top of all that, the 8-Bit Pack Pliers also have a tubeless valve cleaner integrated into the handle.
Specs:
-17 functions: spoke wrench; valve core wrench; flat head #3.5 and Phillips #2 screwdriver bits; 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8mm hex; and T10, T25 Torx-compatible bits; install and remove master links; clear tire sealant clogs from valve stem; tighten valve stem lock nut
-Magnets keep all bits in place
-Ball detent swivel head helps access hard-to-reach places
-Handle doubles as breaker bar for extra torque when head is bent
-8mm hex bit tested to over 40 Nm torque
-Retail: $69.95
See more at Wolf Tooth.
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What Do You Do With All Those Cargo Bosses? Runwell Tools Has an Answer
These days, if you want a bike to go touring or bikepacking on, you end up with a lot of vacant cargo bosses when you’re not loaded up. Japan’s Runwell Tools makes various cycling accouterments, including these punk, metal studs that screw into cargo bosses. Velo Orange is now the US distributor for Runwell Tools, so head over to their webshop to see all the offerings, which vary from NJS chain tools, hammered stem caps, and handlebar grip shifting knobs for autos. Unfortunately, the punk studs are sold out but they’re expecting more in stock soon!
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A Trail Working Tool Kit on Kickstarter: GRIP N RIP Dirt Tool Set
Without trail working tools, our favorite trails would exist in disarray. Sometimes packing a full kit into the backcountry can be cumbersome and a new Kickstarter looks to rectify that. The GRIP N RIP Dirt Tool Set features everything you’d need to work dirt in a compact and lightweight package.
Check out the launch video here and see more at Kickstarter…
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Daysaver: A Bike Multitool Offering 9 Tools at 45 grams
Daysaver just launched on Kickstarter. These made in Switzerland tools offer up 9 operations at only 45 grams by using nesting hex keys and a nifty frame mount. We see a lot of tools over here but this one is one of the cleverest yet. Check out more at their Kickstarter.
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The Granite Design Stash RCX Multi-Tool Fits in A Gravel Bike’s Carbon Steerer
There are a lot of great products that fit into a MTB steerer tube but these are usually aluminum and are almost always open at the bottom of the steerer. Gravel bike forks typically are closed at the bottom of the steerer and many have carbon steerers. The new Granite Design Stash RCX uses a compression plug in lieu of a starnut and is is designed for forks without opening at the bottom of the steerer tube.
The Stash RCX features:
-8-piece Multi-tool: 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, T25, Flathead
-Spoke key: 0, 1, 2, 3 with valve core removing function
-System weight (incl. multi-tool): 110g
-Multi-Tool weight: 57g
-Color: Black and Orange
-Stash RCX fits forks with or without the open end at the bottom of steerer tube.
-The inner diameter of the fork steerer needs be round shape and measured between 23.5mm to 27mm.
In stock on August 27th for $54.99 at Granite Designs.
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Fix It Sticks: Ratcheting T-Way Wrench
Fix It Sticks, makers of small, compact, yet robust tools just announced their T-Way Ratcheting Wrench. This wrench has magnetic holders on all three ends and can accept any standard 1/4″ driver bit. The reversible ratchet end allows for quick directional changes. These wrenches are available at an introductory pre-order price of $32, rising to $40 once they are in stock. Head to Fix It Sticks to see more!
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Abbey Tools: Team Issue Toolbox
If you’re going to have one toolset and money was no object, then look no further. Abbey Tools‘ latest release is drool-worthy. Their Team Issue Toolbox has a retail of $1,350 and is filled with just about everything you’d need to wrench on a bike. Check out the full kit in high-res below.
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Silca Re-thinks the Y Wrench with the Ypsilon
Silca doesn’t think it makes sense to have multiple Y Wrenches kicking around your workbench. They believe you should be able to customize your wrench for whatever task at hand. You know what? I agree. If you do too, check out the new Ypsilon wrench at Silca.