Bring out your multitools....!!!

[raidan73]

The Curse of NOS - I assume there must have been a thread on this at some point, or indeed many times?....

Seems like there would've been but I don't remember it

 

[swebb5039]

Here is mine, crank brothers f15, got for £25 I think it was a good price, very nice well made tool

 

[retroJIM]

This is what I take. Nothing fancy and quite heavy but it all fits in a Muc-off tool bottle which can be easily transferred between bikes. I also have a spare innertube and a minipump strapped to the frame. One day I'll replace the multitools with something nicer that weighs a whole lot less!

The left multitool was a couple of quid from PlanetX and the Leatherman type thing was freebie from a Petrol station about 15 years ago. I think the chain tool is about 30 years old

 

[2manyoranges]

....and of course 'bought sometime in the 90s...' ....The Alien ...

https://restoringvintagebicycles.com/2020/02/09/topeak-alien-multi-tool/

 

[2manyoranges]

And all this raises the important question of 'what makes a multitool a multitool?' ... a deep existential question which I will look at shortly ....

 

[novocaine]

A tool which combines a number of single function tools in to one object. E.g. allens, driver, spanner, splitter. Or knife,pliers, driver, scissors.

 

[2manyoranges]

Ah HA! It could be. As you say ... '..single function tools in to one object...' which is one possible definition. Or it could be a tool which has a number of things which have a number of functions - e.g. those tools where a single piece does more than one thing..oooooh....deep discussion. Just what is 'multi' about the parts or the whole?

 

[novocaine]

I thought you may quibble around the single object part but i was wrong.
I'd consider multi to mean more than one rahter than sum of parts. I seek the light, i feel the need to find a guru on a hilltop somewhere.

 

[2manyoranges]

Ommmmmm.......

 

[2manyoranges]

And I have just remembered this. As a youngster this absolutely was what I carried with me...it was both my portable tool and the tool I used to repair my bike. Ubiquitious in the 60's...: