Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

Interesting toolbox contents, guessing fingers and wrists of steel with just the one tyre lever

Errrrrr..... Halfords?

You don’t like my ratchet?

No Knipex?

The side cutters are Knipex, but that’s it.

It's not that I dislike it, just checking my eyes were not deceiving me

Halfords ratchets get a good review usually

It might be too plebeian to soil your fair hand but I’ve never had a problem with it. Seems to install and remove threaded bottom brackets, which is what I ask of it.

With that said, it's there purely for bottom bracket R&R, and I really don't anticipate doing that when on holiday in the summer. I think I'll remove that task from the list, which also removes the largest torque wrench (assuming I'll do up cassette and centre-lock lockings "PFT").

Hmm, maybe I should keep the big torque wrench.

No, it’s out. V2.

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Big orange handled adjustable spanner to be replaced with a Knipex "pliers wrench" on my birthday next month.

That spanner still has the Vauxhall market price tag on it.

You want one of those combo quick link pliers to save space.

Why do you need the cable puller?

The cable puller is one of my absolute most favourite tools, I always use it when adjusting a derailleur.

Fair fair, and you use all 3 picks? For internal routing or something?

Fishing seals out of suspension linkages most recently, I probably don't need all three though.

But that's a point, I do need to add the suspension bearing press - spending two weeks riding a sack of castanets would drive me nuts.

Lol.

My crown race setter is a tube from a henry vacuum cleaner and I use the curved edge of a shave hook combination tool for getting the dam things off.

I do have a second hand Snap-on baseball cap that was a dealer freebie though

A Henry hoover eh? Hark at you, I use an unbranded length of plastic tube.

Indeed, I'm a bit of a crown race setter snob

I just shout at the race until it sets itself.

Thought I was a tool nerd but there are a couple of things there I don't even recognise:

1. Top row to the left of the red handled hex driver
   
2. Park Tool to the right of the chain splitter
   
   

The colourful allen keys are nice too! Who uses analogue verniers in this day and age :)

I splashed out on a proper tool to set crown races (more fool me - might try the shouting method next time), but the one thing I really want is a Unior Crown race puller. Always found a mole grip ideal for tensioning cables but a cable pull tool might be on the wish list soon (cheap draper one though).

Which one is the air compressor?

Thought I was a tool nerd but there are a couple of things there I don't even recognise:

Top row to the left of the red handled hex driver
Park Tool to the right of the chain splitter

1. Disc rotor trueing (sp?) tool
   
2. Disc brake pad spreader
   
   
   

=I really hate any hint of "ting ting ting ting ting ting".

Splitting the tools into layers, and to get a rough idea of size of box needed:

Top layer:

Mid layer:

Bottom layer:

And with a bleed kit and lubricants etc in the lid.