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Crank Brothers Multi-19 inc Tool Flask review

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Crank Bros Multi-19 inc Tool Flask

BikeRadar verdict

3.5 out of 5 stars

"Practical and stylish too, with room for extras like coins."

6 comments
Wed 6 Aug 2008, 11:00 am BSTBy

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Crank Brothers is a past master at packaging relatively plain items like pedals into something worthy of a Design Council award, and this tool gets the same treatment sheathed in a plastic and stainless steel flask with the Crank Bros motif on the side.

There’s room inside the flask for coins, spare inner tube patches and the house keys. The Allen keys are 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8mm sizes, and they are short enough not to twist too much when tightening screws.

It has two flat blade and two Phillips sizes, with the smallest being handy for extracting watch size screws or when replacing the batteries on some brands of cycle computer. It also has four spoke keys.

The short handle on the chain splitter makes it hard to deal with 10-speed chains and their tight-fitting pins, though it tackled 9-speed chains with ease.

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  • The tools themselves look like they're made out of decent enough material. But I stopped using my 19 after the first use because it's just the wrong shape.

    Don't believe me? Try adjusting your front deraileur limit screws!

    Plus, there's no removeable allen key to be able to tighten the tool with, so once it's gone floppy you'll have to go home anyway!

  • Must admit, i tend to go home when mines gone floppy too. I feel your pain bro. :-)

  • Must admit I was swayed more by looks than functionality, and given my recent experience trying to break a 10 sp chain with a workshop tool, I'm confident it would be impossible with this. Still think it looks cool though.

  • Not a bad product...pretty slim & durable but they need to make it in stainless...I keep mine in my saddle bag which sometimes gets wet and the multi-tool is already rusting.

  • Brilliant bit of kit,wife brought mine for my birthday has been well used. Ihave no trouble with it at all i would recommend this to anyone,also looks pretty cool to.

  • its got a life time warranty if it goes floppy get a new un

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Specification

Name:
Multi 19 Multi-tool
Built by:
Crank Brothers
Price:
$39.76

Tool Material:
Aluminium
Included in Multi-Tool:
Chain Tool, Flat Screwdriver, Hex wrenches, Phillips Screwdriver, Spoke Keys, Torxwrench
Weight (g):
178 g
No. of Tools Included:
19
Lenqth Closed:
8.9 cm

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