Amid all of the carbon full suspension bikes and whizz-bang suspension, a small booth had a simple, ingenious and affordable product. The Clever Original tyre levers are a clip together pair of very sturdy feeling tyre levers. But slide the two cutaways together and you have a very useable tool that works as a split link splitter.
Two study, clip together tyre leversPut together and you have a chainlink tool. And maybe salad tongs.
The company shared a booth with the cleverly named Silic-ONE company that offers silicon grips and bar tape.
Points for the clever nameSlide on and lock on silicon gripsGrippy bar tape too
Both companies are looking for UK distributors, but we’ll be doing our best to get them sorted out soon so we can get to play with them.
With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)
