Cheap, decent toolkit!

[okgo]

Hi all.

Just found this for £35 delivered, I have had one before (lost it, hence buying another) and it was a good bit of kit. For a fraction of the price of Park Tools etc.

http://www.thetoolden.co.uk/toolden.nsf/home?OpenF...

Cheers.

Edited by okgo on Tuesday 8th September 14:03

[Xenocide]

okgo said:

Hi all.

Just found this for £35 delivered, I have had one before (lost it, hence buying another) and it was a good bit of kit. For a fraction of the price of Park Tools etc.

http://www.thetoolden.co.uk/toolden.nsf/home?OpenF...

Cheers.

Edited by okgo on Tuesday 8th September 14:03

LIDL do that for £15 quid at certain times of year

[okgo]

Xenocide said:

okgo said:

Hi all.

Just found this for £35 delivered, I have had one before (lost it, hence buying another) and it was a good bit of kit. For a fraction of the price of Park Tools etc.

http://www.thetoolden.co.uk/toolden.nsf/home?OpenF...

Cheers.

Edited by okgo on Tuesday 8th September 14:03

LIDL do that for £15 quid at certain times of year

Really?

The draper kit?

Impressive.

[P-Jay]

looks a bit old-fashioned to me.

Has a chain-whip but no lock ring tool.

The bottom bracket tool doesn't look like the one for an external BB.

headset wrench? not a tool you need for a threadless headset.

I'm not a pro mechanic, but looks like a tool kit from 5 years or more ago they have lying around.

I bought this one a while back

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/LifeLine_Worksho...

it was on offer at the time for £40 I think, it's good enough for the home mechanic with 1 or 2 bikes. Not a great finish on the tools. Great for occational use though.

[longblackcoat]

P-Jay said:

looks a bit old-fashioned to me.

Has a chain-whip but no lock ring tool.

The bottom bracket tool doesn't look like the one for an external BB.

headset wrench? not a tool you need for a threadless headset.

I'm not a pro mechanic, but looks like a tool kit from 5 years or more ago they have lying around.

I bought this one a while back

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/LifeLine_Worksho...

it was on offer at the time for £40 I think, it's good enough for the home mechanic with 1 or 2 bikes. Not a great finish on the tools. Great for occational use though.

Yep, the Lifeline kit is good value for money - I tend to stick it in the car when heading off to events or long rides as it'll cover 90+% of anything that might go wrong with the bike. I've not had to replace any of the bits in the three years I've been using it.

[Master Mischief]

I very much follow the buy cheap / buy twice theory with tools. The worst case being that bike parts are mega expensive and cheap tools with low tollerances can damage them.

I recently bought a set of Halfrauds [new name for presfessional] allen keys with a lifetime warranty and within two months of regular home use three allen keys had lost their edge and started to round. Got a refund.

My advice is to buy a decent set of allen keys and a torx T25 bit. This covers a lot on the bike. Then just buy the more specialist tools as and when required. This is long term cheaper than buying low quality box sets (that waste money on stuff you don't need) every year or so.

[okgo]

Draper tools are of fine quality.

Some of the bits may be out of date (although it looks identical to the other kit linked) but they are well made, and they lasted me ages. I just lost them all.

Spending £350 on a park set, is quite frankly stupid unless you are a bike shop, or are doing a serious amount of work on your own bikes.