One of our favorites includes a small torque wrench to help prevent overtightening bolts and potentially damaging sensitive parts, like carbon handlebars. Some disassemble and reassemble in ways that offer more leverage or to keep the tool from flexing in use for more precision tightening. Some tools are magnetized to help hold bits in place on the tool itself, or to hold the tool in place on the bike. They are also high quality and comfortable enough to use on a regular basis-as at home on a workbench as they are in a backpack or jersey pocket. These are great set-it-and-forget-it options.īench-worthy tools tend to come in roll-up pouches and include removable handles that allow extra leverage. Hidden multi-tools attach to or slot into existing openings on your bike, so you don’t need to carry them in a pack, seatbag, or jersey pocket. (You likely could completely assemble or disassemble a bicycle with one if you wanted.) They can be bulky-likely best carried in a backpack or seatbag-but will let you ride worry-free. They are small, lightweight, and simple.Īll-in- one tools contain pretty much everything you need, including tire levers and a chain tool, to fix most any malfunction.
You’ll likely need to augment them with a set of tire levers and/or a chain tool to have an all-situations fixer. Super-minima list tools contain the bare essentials-mostly hex wrenches. Our selection of some of the best multi-tools on the market breaks down into four categories: Super-Minimalist, All-in-One, Hidden, and Bench-Worthy.
And much like today’s components, today’s multi-tools are marvels of engineering that provide lots of problem-solving options. In reality, that’s what a good multi-tool is supposed to do: provide the tools to fix your bike well enough to see you home.
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These enemies can sometimes catch you by surprise and ultimately leave you stranded on a ride-unless you have a great multi-tool handy to patch things up and get you rolling again. But as amazing as they are, they still have three major enemies: vibration, which, over time, can loosen bolts and connection points impact, which can break, bend, and twist things and neglect, which can lead to rust, corrosion, and other nastiness. Once installed and adjusted, today’s bike components are likely to perform as intended for a long, long time.
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