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I've never taken a full set of allen keys when I take my bikes abroad, only those I need. And most of those were eventually retired when I got the Silca T-Ratchet Kit as for most uses, handlebars, stems, seat posts, brakes etc as it replaced the full sized allen keys and is a good rudimentary torque measure. I also swop out the bits in the Silca case to others which are more useful depending on the bike, eg one bike only has torx heads on the chainring, so I don't need the others. The only other really useful tool was a pedal spanner, but I'd often just take a longer 8mm allen key. Those things coupled with a decent leatheman pilers type multitool covered me for pretty much everything aside from the obligatory puncture repair kit. My entire travel abroad toolkit fits into something the size of a bidon, including spare cables, small bottle of lube, tire boot, tubes etc. And most of it I've never used, but it's handy to have if needed.
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Like Muppetteer, I also use a mini ratchet for home wrenching now and it would be much lighter and more compact than a whole set of allen keys, add to the fact that you can also take torx bits and a screwdriver bit for limit screws if they don't have hex heads, at negligible extra space
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The cylinder is the most compact holder that I've seen, even more so than the Wera, which is why I'm interested in it.