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Old 03-29-10 | 03:08 PM
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What's your budget? There are a lot of "crappy" sets out there too, and you'll hear a lot of opinions about this, it's been covered a lot, did you search? The Park AK-37 is kinda the bomb, but expensive at ~$220 and overkill for most, esp for fixed gear bikes. What I did when I got back into biking and wanted to jumpstart my tools with some quality was get the basic Park SK1 kit for $65 and added on a Hozan lockring tool, Park chain whip, and a Campy PB wrench. And a Park PCS-10 stand for $125 and I am frickin good to go

A lot of people are content with their $50-100 kits, depends on how much you wrench really and if you're ok with something breaking or possibly even messing up your stuff. The other common advice is if you buy a crappy tool you end up buying twice, but buy quality from the start and you're good for life. i went with the latter

Depending on what you have now, just buy quality tools piecemeal as you need them imo

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