wonderloaf
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Don't get the ones from B&Q, they're made from cheese, and it's not even hard cheese.
long hex keys with ball ends are excellent for bottle cages - yep, can be very difficult to impossible with a squat multitool.@Blue Hills you'd be proud of me. This question was brought about because I changed my seat post!! Before starting I measured the hell out of everything. My Cervelo and Kinesis are identically set up except the saddle on the Kinesis is angled down and forwards.
Two issues occurred tightening the seat post clamp, my multi-tool coped but the old "L" hex was too worn to do so. I found setting the angle tricky and I'm sure having a hex with a handle would ease this. Simply easier to hold/use.
The other thing is I frequently remove bottle cages when cleaning and find the "L" very fiddly and the multi-tool even more so.
My "L" set is probably 15 years old, at least. As I bought it when I used to fettle my lads go-kart. Yes, weird, I learned from scratch how to fettle a kart right down to stripping an engine but never the bike.
I'm fairly hopeless but happy and my bikes wear out, never fail. 🤞
Prompted by this thread I've also gone out and bought a set of the Halfords hex keys, first impressions are good, I've just used them to adjust my handlebar stem and the hex was a good fit into the bolts, unlike the B&Q set!The Halfords Advanced tools have an excellent reputation in general, so I took a gamble and bought the hex key set at £26. They seem decent so far, and have a lifetime warranty.