The new Wolf Tooth Components 8-Bit Pack Pliers is a lightweight multi-tool with 17 functions. Eight attachments nest inside the handles of master link pliers using magnets and a clever storage system. These attachments then fit into an 8mm ball detent swivel head that has a 4mm opening for hex bits, which adds functionality to […]
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Revelate-Wolf Tooth CoLab: ToolCash Field Review – by Greg Gentle
Revelate-Wolf Tooth CoLab: ToolCash Field Review When I was a kid there was an infamous TV commercial for Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. Picture a handsome dude with a sweet feathered hair style turning the street corner with a chocolate bar in his hand crashing into a young lady walking down the sidewalk eating out of […]
Wolftooth Components announces the EnCase System
Our amigos from Wolftooth Components just announced some Mi6 – James Bond storage and multi-tool called the EnCase System. The system is designed to reside on the inside of your handlebar. The following is a news release about the cool new do-dads and what-knots (tools and storage) from WTC’s own Q department deep in a […]
PDW Fatty Object – Bench Test
So I’ve been riding around with one of the New PDW Fatty Object CO2 inflator strapped to the seatpost of the bike I’m on, but up until now, hadn’t tested it out, because I only had one full CO2 canister and I didn’t want to waste it on a test. So I started to […]
Industry Nine Matchstix – Fat-Bike Compatible – Thru Axle / Multitool
I’ve been admiring the ingenuity of the Industry Nine Matchstix Thru Axle Multi-tool since it debuted, but up until just recently, they didn’t make one that would fit the fat-bike with a Bluto or Bluto compatible 150mm x 15 fork. As soon as I found out that I9 introduced a fat-bike compatible model, […]
Fat Tools ♦ Torque Limiters
Is is better to be too tight, rather than too loose? How tight is tight enough? How tight is too tight? These aren’t just questions that could come from the script of the XXX version of Goldilocks and the three bears. These are questions that a bicycle mechanic faces every time they tighten a bolt. […]
Tested Thursday – SKS AirChecker – Duo Head ~ Digital Air Gauge
After a few years of mistrusting my pump gauge and guessing what pressure I was running, I decided to purchase a digital air gauge. I asked my riding buds what they used and most were in the same camp that I had been in for years…..a pump guage (that starts at 10 psi) or the squeeze […]