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ha, well over priced alan keys

Is that £75 all in?

yea 75 quid for allen keys is ridiculous

we don't buy these allen keys in for £5 then think we can get away with ripping people off by selling them at the highest possible price, we buy from the distro, add the normal margin then sell. We try to sell everything at the lowest possible prices. Granted a tool shop stocking thousands of different tools might be able to under cut us but we do out best...

Gangsta's ain't all they are cracked up to be... they weigh a ton & the same geometry can be had out of a Langster for much cheaper & lighter. I rode one for a month & was not impressed... but if you fall in love with something you tend to do daft unreasoned things like shell out £700. It's a name & a rep you're buying nothing else. Scott, you are clearly blinded by the love.

we don't buy these allen keys in for £5 then think we can get away with ripping people off by selling them at the highest possible price, we buy from the distro, add the normal margin then sell. We try to sell everything at the lowest possible prices. Granted a tool shop stocking thousands of different tools might be able to under cut us but we do out best...

When I was in retail, the mark up was x2.2 which I believe to be standard on the highstreet... without the usual overheads, what is yours?

I have used these, they are great! £25 from edinburgh cycles. £75 for the coloured ones makes no sense to me at all!

TFG, fair play and I'm sorry I accused you of 'boutique bullshit', but surely you can understand that to us it seems rather expensive? it is three times what they cost elsewhere (although admittedly these long ball-ended ones probably cost more) and they were already very much at the upper limit of what I for one was prepared to pay for allen keys. I'm sorry if that's the lowest you were able to offer them at, but you can't blame us for being suspicious! I mean, seriously, £75?! Some people obviously just love spending money.

That said, they are AMAZING quality and noticeably better to use than your average keys.

we don't buy these allen keys in for £5 then think we can get away with ripping people off by selling them at the highest possible price, we buy from the distro, add the normal margin then sell. We try to sell everything at the lowest possible prices. Granted a tool shop stocking thousands of different tools might be able to under cut us but we do out best...

Get out of here !

That's a comedy price !!

Seventy five pounds for a set of Allen keys !!!!!!!

I know they are nice, but you cam get the ones with the ball head (the long version you are selling) for £36 and the normal sets for £18.

Hey there, can you or anyone tell me more about these.... Any good for the price or just pretty, it aint for myself but for my girlfriend.... Would be good to know more...
Thanks H....

those d-locks are lovely to behold but unfortunately they're made of soft cheese.

It seems to me that PB are charging $70.86 for this tool & that's from the manufacturer. By the time you get them in they wouldn't be far off £75. Bear in mind PB do a whole range or rainbow tools all varying in size & price.
Oh & the palmy U locks are nice for the front wheel & all but I wouldn't trust your whole bike to a aluminum lock!

http://pbtoolsus.thomasnet.com/item/rainbow-series/pb-212-lh-rb-ball-point-hex-key-l-wrench-set/pn-1955?&forward=1 ,
any way, lots of new stuff in!

That's not all that's comedy...
£22.34 for Toshi's here
£43 for Toshi's here

Oh, & £14 for black Noylon straps when I can pick them up in decathalon for 99p

I could go on but I fear I may bore people

Couldn't you just nick them?

Soft cheese? Mmmnnnnn ....

£14 for black Noylon straps when I can pick them up in decathalon for 99p

you can buy them with plastic toe clips for a fiver. and i'm talking about the good plastic toe clips.

Gangsta's ain't all they are cracked up to be... they weigh a ton & the same geometry can be had out of a Langster for much cheaper & lighter. I rode one for a month & was not impressed... but if you fall in love with something you tend to do daft unreasoned things like shell out £700. It's a name & a rep you're buying nothing else. Scott, you are clearly blinded by the love.

After two years of constant use both in the city and up to 120 mile+ rides i reckon i'm in a better position to give an honest opinion than you after your month.
Brooklyn machine works didn't invent their rep....they earned it...through making some of the best and most influential products in the bike industry.
Shimano didn't invent v-brakes, BMW did...the race link remains one of the best downhill frames ever made...the gangsta has had countless imitators.

I'm blinded by nothing...but i know what makes a good bike...and my brooklyn will outlast any langster.

That's not all that's comedy...
£22.34 for Toshi's here
£43 for Toshi's here

Oh, & £14 for black Noylon straps when I can pick them up in decathalon for 99p

I could go on but I fear I may bore people

cheaper than we get them in for, thats depressing. I best pack it all up then.

When I was in retail, the mark up was x2.2 which I believe to be standard on the highstreet... without the usual overheads, what is yours?

75 quid for a set of allen keys. fuck right off. disgrace. hiss.

The man's got the right to charge whatever he wants; if you don't like it then spend your money elsewhere, no need to bash him in public

+1, but i did find the sale page on the website amusing...

http://www.tokyofixedgear.com/specials.asp

Save a whole 0% :-o

despite the few overpriced items (which fixed specific store/webshop isn't overpriced). tfg have fantastic service, items arrive within 48hrs and are always well packaged.

in my experience sometimes paying that little extra from somewhere where you know its gonna arrive within a couple of days is worth paying a little extra for then from somewhere else (no names mentioned) which doesn't have web stock updates and you have to spend several days or more e-mailing to confirm it as being in stock and/or delivered.

I don't get the flaming of these guys on the this thread, they have a nice shop, sell cool stuff (lovely frames!), why give them all this unbalanced bad publicity. Independent /real world bike shops need support.
Out of all the stuff, why focus on the allen keys? Is that really a constructive review of what these guys are about, and their shop? I found a chainring at Brixton cycles that was twice as much as some other place, what does that mean? Sweet fa! Should I start a thread about it?No!
The truth is actually theyre an awesome place, not just a distributor of over-priced chainrings. Rant over.

I don't get the flaming of these guys on the this thread.

Good point, the market is full of pretty cyclical bike chains, we should be encouraging small independents like this.

But at the end of the day £75 Allen keys are bound to raise a few eyebrows, maybe if they had better sense (of their market) they could see the issue and understand that it positions them in a very certain context.

Don't try and sell £75 Allen keys and expect people to not - at least - comment.

Max is a good guy and i'm sure he'll take peoples comments on board....but he's much more likely to do that if people don't instantly attack.
You gotta remember that he can't afford to buy in bulk....shop 14 don't pay for tokyo fixed gear's stock, he does.

Max is a good guy and i'm sure he'll take peoples comments on board....but he's much more likely to do that if people don't instantly attack.

But that is what we do best ?

I think i saw a video of a bloke doing a bunny-hop on a quarter pipe (just a staright up bunny-hop then coming back down fakie) whilst riding a Brooklyn. The forks snapped clean off at the crown. I thought they were supposed to be strong as fuck?

actually the fork was damaged already, and the person who was doing that bunny-hop did that knowing it'll snap eventually, that why he was wearing a helmet, he was simply trying to snap the fork on purpose.

seriously, it worth just checking the backstory before you says thing like that, it easy to discredit a small company with comment like that (look at Brixton Cycles for one).