Hans Rey introduced us to this chap, casually walking the aisles of the Sea Otter with his Laguna Rads T-shirt on and his wearable tools on hand…
Launched via Kickstarter, the Wheelie Wrench (there are other versions for skate and snowboards) is a slim multitool small enough to fit in the coin pocket of a pair of jeans, or as in this case, into a special belt buckle. There’s even a prototype version that’ll clip to the shoulder strap of a hydration pack or backpack.
OK, nice photo co-opting, Rads.The tool slides out of this belt buckle (that also keeps your trousers up too. How about that?)There was also a new prototype on show…This version will slide on to just about any small strap
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.)
The bag-tool isn’t a buckle, it’s a sliding strap-mount that you could put on any suitable strap – I’d have thought that it’d fit well on a shoulder strap and be both out of the way, yet handy. We’ll see if we can get one in to look at.
A Rapha belt is over £80 and whilst you may look like a tool whilst wearing one, it doesn’t provide any functional benefit when something besides your pants needs adjusting.
It looks like they’ve worked hard to place that bag buckle exactly in a really bad place for crashing
Do like the belt though
The bag-tool isn’t a buckle, it’s a sliding strap-mount that you could put on any suitable strap – I’d have thought that it’d fit well on a shoulder strap and be both out of the way, yet handy. We’ll see if we can get one in to look at.
The belt plus multitool is $80 !!!! very cool, but very expensive
A Rapha belt is over £80 and whilst you may look like a tool whilst wearing one, it doesn’t provide any functional benefit when something besides your pants needs adjusting.
if you’ve got a bag why not have the tool in it?