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If you were to purchase only the barest essentials of MTB maintenance kit, what would you go for?
We'll take multi-tool/pump/inner tubes & patches as a given, but what lotions and potions would you go for, say three items?
Chain lube, general purpose grease and Muc-Off (or equivalent?)
None of your fair trade Panamanian organic gear butter mind.
credit card 🙂
3 in 1 oil white grease and hot water
3 cans of GT-85 😉
Condom (you never know)
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A multi-tool and a wide selection of swear words to use creatively as the situation dictates.
Thanks to a lost chainring bolt, I had to straighten a chainring by the side of the trail using a flint and throwing "f***k"s at it.
Grease - castrol LM
Degreaser - halford citrus
GT 85
Decent set of allen keys
bb, crank and caseette tools
Chain whip
adjustable spanner
screwdrivers big / small cross and flat
Cassette removal tool.
BB removal tool.
Head set tool.
All you need to build a bike really. The rest is pretty much allen keys and stuff you can find in any man draw in any household.
A good pair of wire cutters for cleanly cutting gear cables springs to mind. I splashed out for the Park Tools ones, but at today's prices I think I'd possibly opt for something cheaper, though I'm happy to be corrected if this would be a false ecomomy 🙂
Umm.. External bottom bracket tool pretty essential. Chain whip and cassette lockring tool pretty essential.
I also found a magnetic parts bowl to be surprisingly handy. That's a good one to get as a birthday present 🙂
Oh, that's four things I've said...
Ice Toolz bike tool set - 32 quid online, fantastic deal, everything I needed - only thing it didn't have was wire cutters, so I used the good kitchen scissors for that.