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Its my birthday in a couple of weeks and I quite fancy a Leatherman style multi tool to replace my old swiss army knife. Something with a pair of pliers and a decent knife blade. That's all really. I've a decent multitool that covers most bike trail-side issues, and my best trail tool is a 10" folding pruning saw that cost £3 from Wilkinsons.
So, what Leatherman would you recomend?
Skeletool
my best trail tool is a 10" folding pruning saw that cost £3 from Wilkinsons.
So, what Leatherman would you recomend?
what the **** goes wrong on your bike to need that? 😕
I have the Gerber suspension.
Skeletool is very good and light
taka - ha! Fallen trees. Seriously, I can get through up to 14" diameter tree trunk across a trail in a couple of minutes. My way of being a trial fairy 🙂
KJ: Skeletool looks rather tasty. But I am now thinking a can opener and a corkscrew have proved worthwhile in the past.
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I have a simple, light, 25yr old 4 bladed Swiss Army Knife (+ a tooth pick, cork screw & tweezers too) that has out lasted and out performed my £60 Leatherman and Gerber do-it-all knives. Clearly it doesn't have a saw (never found a use for that blade!) nor pliers.
I think they did a Juicy that was pretty neat and covered most bases.
taka - some of the trails we ride on need a bit of maintenance once in a while...
skeletool
http://www.leatherman.com/products/product.asp?id=2&f=6&c=1
fuse - I got one of these from Black on toon for £40
http://www.leatherman.com/products/product.asp?id=12&f=6&c=1
the skeletool is 40 g lighter but the fuse has more tools that you might never need. But might.
I got my little bro a Gerber for about the same sort of money, but there's not much to pick between the two and they haven't been used enough to show any problems.
Got a wave as a gift for being bestman - it's got more thn I'll ever use, but it's not light!
not a fan of the skelatool as it uses bits instead of designated screwdriver 'tools' been using leatherman tools for years and literally worn out 3 till there was not much blade left.
current leatherman is a 'kick' compact and light. quality!
use it at work everyday and feel lost without it.
I have a Leatherman Charge TTi which is rather nice. Got it from US Ebay when the pound was strong
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+1 for Charge Ti. Amazon sometime do pretty good deals on them.
I think the Wave is the best balance of tools and weight. It's what I'll be buying to replace the supertool I lost after 13 years.