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placements once it gets to the point where you want to retire it other tools unique to the ct34 are the corkscrew and hook the corkscrew is not really that useful unless you tend to drink a lot of wine outside the hook is rated for to almost 100 kg which opens up some possibilities zip line anyone like the surge the ct34 also has two blades and pliers unlike the surge the blades are both non locking and neither are serrated the surge has one straight and one serrated the blades hold an edge very well but because if this they require a bit more work during their admittedly less frequent sharpenings the pliers are sprung and much smaller than the surge pliers they are ideal for small detail work which makes them a good compliment to the surge pliers rather than redundant they also include wire cutters only really good for small gauge wire in the jaw of the pliers and a crimper in the arms the remaining tools are duplicates of the tool selection available on the surge and include the following a can opener with a useful small flat head driver and a bottle opener with large flat head driver scraper pryer wire bending notch very good sprung scissors sharp awl with eye for thread i like this awl better than the surge awl and i have made some holes in wood with it when there was no drill available the tools in swiss army knives are held in place using back spings these keep the tools folded away when not in use and give the tools a satisfying snap when opening closing the main disadvantage of the back spring mechanism over the leatherman is that most of the tools require fairly long and substantial nails or some sort of substitute to get at whereas the tools on the admittedly less sleek leatherman are easily accessible without using nails i get around this by using the tweezers from the scales to open the tools which have nail nicks and the use of nail nicks does make for a much smaller overall package when compared to the likes of a leatherman at the time of writing i am in south china and i have managed to grow my nails a bit due to the fact that i have stopped biting them whilst i have been here due to the generally less hygienic conditions here e g public toilets with no hand washing facilities non drinkable tap water etc and the nail nicks are working just fine for me at the moment much like the klean kanteen bottle and leatherman surge i have reviewed previously i have become rather attached to the cybertool 34 i think part of this is due to having these things with me so much of the time and enjoying the various benefits they bring this is especially true for the things i have with me when i m travelling abroad on my own whilst it is smaller and therefore less capable than the surge after nearly eight months of carrying it with me most of the time i am very happy with the ct34 paired with the surge there are not many jobs which cannot be tackled the ct34 is also a very capable tool in its own right without being too bulky to carry around all most of the time although if you are going to have just one tool of this sort the cybertool 41 with the addition of a wood saw metal saw file and chisel may be a better option posted in gear review tools 6 replies klean kanteen insulated 591 ml 20 us fl oz posted on june 1 2016 by chestercycling 2 i first heard of klean kanteen kk via lovely bicycle they are available here in the uk including in a few bricks and mortar shops but as they are made for the us market their capacities are made to crazy us units rather than sensible rest of the world metric vacuum flasks are nothing new but the majority of vacuum flasks on the market are aimed at people who want to carry hot still drinks and are often sold with lids intended to double up as cups to drink from something i wanted for a long time is a vacuum flask for cold possibly fizzy drinks and which i could drink from directly whilst on the go rather than using a separate cup but there did not seem to be any products which could need this requirement one of my main aims was to reduce the number of cold drinks i purchased whilst out and about on warmer days partly to save money and partly because of the tendency of many shops to use broken ineffective drinks chillers or to not bother with stock rotation when filling fridges boots and superdrug i am looking at you eventually i found out that klean kanteen made insulated versions of some of their classic range of bottles the size i bought nominally 591 ml 600 ml in practice came with a loop carabiner lid and i was not sure if the lid would be ok with fizzy drinks however i saw that a larger version of the same bottle but with a swing top lid was being sold by klean kanteen as a growler for carrying carbonated beer for a while i used the loop carabiner lid but the seal on this did not do very well with carbonated drinks the lid had to be screwed down very tight to prevent the pressure leaking out and when it was opened a small part of the seal would often unseat before the rest sometimes resulting in a highly directional spray especially after riding the brompton over cobbles this happened in quite spectacular fashion as a sat in the quiet coach of a virgin pendolino to edinburgh spraying two fellow passengers with a fine mist of pepsi max after this i decided to give the swing top lid sold with the klean kanteen growlers a try instead the addition of the swing lock cap produces an ideal solution for keeping cold fizzy drinks cold and fizzy for an extended period of time 9 hours has been no problem occasionally i have also had coffee in the bottle which stays hot enough for me for at least four hours and possibly a fair bit more too a few times i have used it for beer too another feature of the flask which i like is that it is constructed from 18 8 stainless steel inside and out whilst i suspect that the recent hysteria about bpa is overblown i do not like the flavour retention which happens with most re usable plastic bottles aluminium bottles can also have this problem as they require lining and this lining is usually made of some sort of polymer the advantage of stainless steel is that it does not retain or impart any flavour on the contents of the bottle and is resistant to corrosion from the sorts of things you are likely to store inside the bottle and also the sorts of conditions the outside is likely to be exposed to it is also durable i have dropped mine a few times and whilst it is dented it still functions perfectly well this bottle really works well for me i use it everyday i even took it with me when i had to travel to japan for work in early may which allowed me to really maximise the benefit from the airport lounge access i got as a check in bonus growlers are vessels for transporting draught beer from a bar or brewery for later consumption elsewhere i suspect that the name may be hindering the concept in the uk somewhat update i have been in kunming china for a few weeks and i have really appreciated having the kk bottle with me tap water here is not drinkable and in some of the workplaces i ve visited there are often very few opportunities to get a drink when drinking water is available the custom is to serve it hot which i do not find particularly refreshing due to long standing concerns here about water quality luckily i ve been able to have clean icy cold water available whilst at work and travelling around it may seem like a small thing but it has made the wider situation a lot more tolerable posted in gear japan uncategorized 2 replies the cargo cult of cycling culture posted on december 19 2014 by chestercycling 7 cycling culture is a term which is nebulous enough that it can mean significantly different things to different people to some it will bring to mind images of hipsters and the fixed gear scene or the likes of the counter cultural critical mass movement to others it will invoke the bmx scene or road cycling clubs or people who live and breathe mountain biking the one thing linking all of these ideas of cycling culture is that their members all take the bicycle and make it a significant part of their identities because of this i find it weird when cycling culture is discussed as a cause of cycling being a mainstream mode of transport in the netherlands the implication is that dutch people are not choosing how to travel primarily based on their experience of their environment but because of some sort of unique cycling culture which is a part of being dutch this implies that this ill defined cycling culture would need to be somehow replicated in the uk in order to allow cycling to become a mainstream mode of transport here some people may make the further inference that replication of this dutch cycling culture is sufficient in itself to allow cycling to become a mainstream mode of transport also worth noting is that just because driving is the dominant mode of transport in the uk it does not follow that the uk has an equivalent car culture which is a part of being british certainly there are car and motorsport enthusiasts who make the car part of their identities but this is hardly typical of the average person in the uk i also occasionally see arguments that the use of cars as status symbols in the uk produces a culture of driving and works against the cause of cycling as a mode of transport whilst there are also people who spend a lot of money on cars which they see as status symbols these are also the kind of people who will spend money on other conspicuously expensive items in exactly the same way it is the display of having the means to buy the car which is important not the car itself or the watch clothes house boat etc again i don t see this being a major factor in the dominance of driving as a mode of transport in the uk this kind of behaviour can also be seen in the netherlands just owning a car is not in itself much of an indicator of socio economic status nowadays the truth is that the netherlands has no cycling culture and the uk has no car culture what both countries have is people who choose how to get around by picking the path of least resistance based on their own experience whereas for british people choosing the car is usually the path of least resistance for dutch people choosing the bike is often the path of least resistance this is not due to a difference of culture but an result of the differences in the built environment certainly there are also additional non infrastructural factors increasing the attractiveness of cycling in the netherlands such as the provisions organisations and businesses make for people travelling by bicycle but these are a reaction to the transport choices people make not the main reason they make them this reaction serves to reinforce the effect of the built environment on transport choice as it does in the uk the argument that the netherlands has a particular cycling culture which we would need to somehow replicate here for cycling to become a mainstream mode of transport is at its best cargo cult thinking and at its worst acts as an excuse for inaction and a quiet acceptance of the status quo infrastructure is the foundation of cycling as a mainstream mode of transport nothing else will stand up if that foundation is not there first posted in uncategorized 7 replies leatherman surge multi tool review posted on december 8 2014 by chestercycling reply it is hard to know what tools might be needed in an unexpected situation when you are out and about whether on or off the bike multi tools can be a useful way to stay prepared without the impracticality of carrying a selection of individual tools around with you the leatherman surge has the following tools accessible from the folded position a plain blade a serrated blade spring action scissors a t shank adaptor compatible with either the file or saw provided or any other blade with a common t shank end when unfolded additional tools are accessible pliers including replaceable wire cutting stripping blades and two crimping cut outs below the pivot an awl large and small flat head screwdrivers a bottle can opener and a bit driver which is compatible with proprietary leatherman bits available separately or regular hex bits with the use of an adapter available separately proprietary leatherman bits not necessarily included with every surge in addition to this my surge came with a leather pouch which can be worn on the belt this is useful as the weight of the surge is a bit too much to be comfortable in trouser pockets the build quality is really quite impressive there is no play in the pliers or any of the other tools the tools are made from an appropriate grade of steel for their intended purposes and the blades are designed in such a way that their edges do not strike or sit in contact with the housing when folded away sadly in the uk at least the leatherman surge is not a legal carry item for most people because it features two locking knife blades whilst there are exceptions for those with a good reason for carrying one such as profession the vagueness of that clause could lead you to think that you re safe whilst actually falling foul of the law because of this and the absence of an adjustable spanner i would not recommend the surge as a multi tool for cycling purposes however i would recommend it for anyone who would benefit from having a really good general purpose multi tool posted in review tools leave a reply spending tips posted on december 1 2014 by chestercycling reply last week the deputy prime minister announced something like 1 10 for every individual in the uk is to be spent on cycling per year for the next three years i imagine that planners in whitehall and the various local authority offices around the country are thinking how best to use this money to make the bicycle into accessible transportation for all i thought i would compile some suggestions 1 more car parking spaces one of the major things which puts people off cycling is the fact that people on bikes have to mix with people in cars which makes most people feel unsafe when using a bicycle spending money on providing more free car parking spaces will give people somewhere to put their cars helping to reduce the numbers on the roads 2 motivational advertising people usually choose the path of least resistance when it comes to travel both in the mode they choose and the route they take a handful of advertisements on bus stops television and radio should be sufficient to overcome this basic core component of human psychology 3 showers when cycling amongst motor vehicles people tend to want to minimise the speed differential between themselves and other types of vehicle the fact that this can lead to sweating is a well known factor keeping people off bikes and the logical solution to this is earmark some cash for a fund which will enable employers schools pubs restaurants post offices banks and retailers to provide shower facilities for those cycling to their premises 4 maintenance poorl...