It's Friday, and you know what that means: Time for impossibly dilettante bike collection [No it isn't " Ed]. This week it's the spin of the LockWhip, a combo-tool from Fixed Gear London. But first, here's a video of it in action:
As you can see, the guy carrying out the protest is a competent fixed-gear rider: With no brakes, he terrorizes pedestrians by running a red light at tip speed and careers in to London's Picadilly Circus. He moreover has the mandatory lean pants with Kryptonite Evo-Mini D-lock in the back pocket. Rest assured: this guy is a professional.
In demand to commemorate flourishing nonetheless other negligent excursion by England's capital, the favourite then decides to change his back cog (translation for non fixed-gear riders: he changes gear). For this he uses, of course, the LockWhip. This contains a chain-whip to whip off the sprocket, a lock-ring apparatus and an open 15mm wrench to eliminate and reinstate the wheel.
Once done, he tucks the greasy apparatus in to his inside pocket, wipes his hands on his pants and jumps back in to the complicated London traffic with perceptibly a glance. If you wish to see associate thoroughfare users (cars and busses) being astounded by a forward supplement jumping in front of them from nowhere and normally perplexing to result in an accident, then keep examination until the end.
The 250mm x 40mm, tougher or stronger and blackened steel LockWhip isn't precisely portable, but its more unstable than a periodic chain-whip and lock-ring combo tool, if usually since you do not must be bring a well-defined 15mm wrench. 26 ($42 / 31).
LockWhip Tool [FGLDN around Urban Velo ]
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