Pricing is weird, but they are quality tools. What I hate is the 'toolbox porn' instagram culture of $400 hammers and specialty tools that cost 50X what they're basic, functional Park or Shimano ships one in the box tool costs in cool colors and an equally expensive case with laser cut foam... It's gratuitous, conspicuous consumption, plays into bro culture a lot of times... and it just bums me out to see even bike tools getting marketing and 'influenced' like everything else.
My toolbox is mostly Park and Craftsman, with some Pedros and probably 30% no name crap I grabbed decades ago, or on Amazon or at a local hardware store because I just needed to get something done.
April 28, 2021, 6:51 a.m. - Gbergevin
Pricing is weird, but they are quality tools. What I hate is the 'toolbox porn' instagram culture of $400 hammers and specialty tools that cost 50X what they're basic, functional Park or Shimano ships one in the box tool costs in cool colors and an equally expensive case with laser cut foam... It's gratuitous, conspicuous consumption, plays into bro culture a lot of times... and it just bums me out to see even bike tools getting marketing and 'influenced' like everything else. My toolbox is mostly Park and Craftsman, with some Pedros and probably 30% no name crap I grabbed decades ago, or on Amazon or at a local hardware store because I just needed to get something done.