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LIFEHACKER LIKES this keychain multitool. I carry this very similar one from Swiss Tech. Not as go?

By Glenn Reynolds

LIFEHACKER LIKES this keychain multitool. I carry this very similar one from Swiss Tech. Not as good as a pocketknife/multitool, but a lot better than nothing.

UPDATE: More on multitools from reader Bing Trinidad:

I carry a Leatherman Skeletool CX. I bought from Amazon.com based on a recommendation or a sale notice I saw in your blog.

Its saved me from quite a few binds, but it paid for itself many times over last weekend.

I was coming home from a trip to mountain biking trip to Mt. Diablo in Central California carrying 2 bikes on my 10 year old trunk mount bike rack. I hit a big dip in the freeway on the I-5 and one of the arms on my bike rack collapses. I pull over and see minor damage to the bikes. But the arm that collapsed on the rack had is retention teeth turned to mush. It would not stay up.

I pull out the Skeletool, took the bolt of the assembly, carved out the deformed plastic and carved new rachet gears with the blade into the composite! I reassembled the whole arm, torqued it down with the Skeletool and limped home.

If I didn’t have the Skeletool, I wouldve been stuck in the middle of the I-5 freeway with $ 4000 dollar worth of bikes and no way to transport them.

Thanks for the rec!

You’re welcome! I like my Skeletool, too, but I’m not sure I’d prove that resourceful. Is “Bing Trinidad” an alias for MacGyver?

ANOTHER UPDATE: C.J. Burch emails: “Don’t forget the Leatherman Squirt. It fits right on your key-chain and they sell them at Amazon. I’ve really enjoyed mine.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 23, 2010 (boomark / email).