Wolf Tooth EnCase | Carry Your Tools In Your Handlebars

If hip packs and enduro straps aren’t minimalist enough for you, then there’s a new opportunity to relieve your pockets of stuff and stash it on your bike: the EnCase system from Wolf Tooth. This sleeve allows you to carry a multitool, tubeless tyre plug set and chain breaker in your handlebars.

Fitting both road and mountain bike bars, the EnCase sleeve uses a rubber flap which you cut to match your bars. You’ll need to use grips which have a removable bar end, as the sleeve includes its own bar end. The whole system is available as the ‘Encase System Bar Kit’ for £127 from UK distributor Saddleback. This includes two sleeves, and both tools.

Storage Sleeves

• Bonus storage space—fits a presta-to-schrader adapter and valve core or a master link (both sold separately)
• Vibration-damping material and snug fit prevents rattling
• Durable precision-machined aluminum end caps
• Custom fit rubber flap can be trimmed to fit in smaller diameter bars
• Included Drop Bar Fit Kit to customize fit for larger-diameter road handlebars

Hex Bit Wrench Multi Tool

• 14 functions (spoke wrench; valve core wrench; flat head #3.5; Phillips #2; 2mm, 2.5mm, 3mm, 4mm, 5mm, and 6mm Allen key; and T10, T25, and T30 Torx)
• Magnets & O-rings keep all parts in place
• Ball detent swivel head helps access hard-to-reach places
• Handle doubles as breaker bar when ball detent swivel head is bent for extra torque
• Store in handlebar with a Wolf Tooth EnCase Storage Sleeve
• Magnet on bottom end of tool allows for storage on steel bike stands

Chain And Tyre Plug Multi Tool

• Compatible with all bicycle chains including 12-speed
• Inserter tool and bacon strips plug holes in tubeless tyres
• Five strips included; refills available
• Hardened steel pin for lifetime durability
• Requires 4mm Allen key for chain tool driver

If you don’t want all that, or perhaps you want a set of sleeves for a couple of bikes, each part is available separately:

• Encase Handlebar Sleeves with Barend Plugs: £38
• Encase 14 Function Multitool: £53
• Encase Chainbreak and Tyre Plug Tool: £53

If you’re the kind of person who forgets to take their tools with them, perhaps this is a winning solution? Or maybe you really really hate wearing a bag? Or perhaps you just appreciate neat little gadgets and widgets that fit together just so. The Wolf Tooth EnCase system is available now from Saddleback.

Hannah Dobson

Managing Editor

I came to Singletrack having decided there must be more to life than meetings. I like all bikes, but especially unusual ones. More than bikes, I like what bikes do. I think that they link people and places; that cycling creates a connection between us and our environment; bikes create communities; deliver freedom; bring joy; and improve fitness. They're environmentally friendly and create friendly environments. I try to write about all these things in the hope that others might discover the joy of bikes too.

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