16 New Pro Mechanic’s Tools – Pond Beaver 2021 Apr 20, 2021
Don t have an account? Sign up The never-ending flux of new “standards” in the bike industry means that the walls and drawers of workshops are never quite complete. With that, new tools seem to be revealed every few months, while increased competition at the professional end has seen these shiny new things continue to improve in quality.
Similar to Pinkbike’s Pond Beaver 2020 tool coverage, below is a small selection of new professional and consumer tools released recently that have caught my tool-obsessed eye (and suffering wallet).
Park Tool
It has been decades since the blue tool company released a wholly new derailleur hanger alignment gauge, but that’s exactly what the DAG-3 is. First covered on CyclingTips, Pinkbike s sister site, the DAG-3 (US$117) now sits above the pre-existing DAG-2.2 (US$80) and offers an extruded aluminiu