Originally Posted by SyntaxPC
I've used that Nashbar set before. Here are my impressions/opinions:
- Plastic tire levers are plastic tire levers, pretty much no matter from whom you buy them;
- I'll bet you already have some screw drivers;
- I'll bet you already have an adjustible wrench (although the wrench that comes with the kit is actually of fairly good quality);
- The pedal/crank bolt combo wrench is great;
- The crank puller works just fine, but the threads on the tool dulled a little bit on a crank in which I had to chase for the crank's threads. It still works fine on normal cranks, though. It is also both square taper and ISIS compatible;
- The generic lockring tool works fine, but it's not as nice (or easy to use) as the Park/Pedros ones;
- Allen wrenches are crap;
- Spanners are flimsy and almost useless;
- The BB tools they do give you don't work with all BBs (I realize that would take a lot of tools, though);
- The spoke wrench is fine, but I've rounded off a few nipples with it (granted, they were aluminum nipples); and
- No 15mm wrench?! You are expected to use the adjustible wrench to remove your wheels.
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Thanks for that good tip. I was also deciding whether to pick up a very similar tool kit, but I decided against it for many of the same reasons discussed in this thread.
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