It’s not a visit to the Sea Otter Traditional with out catching up with the Friar, AKA Abbey Bike Instruments founder Jason Quade. Not solely does he often have new product to indicate us, nevertheless it’s all the time a captivating dialog masking all elements of the business.
On the product facet, Abbey has all the time centered on making skilled instruments for skilled mechanics on the go. Now, these skilled mechanics who maintain down the native retailers are getting some love with some new shop-specific instruments. Jason calls these “the appropriate device for the appropriate utility. These aren’t the Workforce Problem instruments made with unique supplies.” As an alternative, these are for stationary mechanics who need final sturdiness over light-weight portability.
Consequently, Abbey has launched the Store Whip-It and the Store Crombie device. Each are totally heat-treated, in comparison with the usual Crombie and Whip, which used a heat-treated head on the Crombie device.
The Store Whip-It has a strengthened head with extra materials across the chain connection factors, solely machined down the place it must be. It additionally makes use of a stronger KMC e10 chain, which continues to be appropriate with 7-13 pace drivetrains.




Moreover, it features a new 3D printed magnet to assist preserve the chain anchored when storing the device, and help in chain wrap when utilizing it on a cassette. These magnets may even match legacy chain whips, if you wish to add one to your present instruments.




The Store Crombie device encompasses a Shimano lockring device on each side, with one facet for QR (which can work over many skewers with out removing) and the opposite for through axles. Each the Store Whip-It and Store Crombie promote for $65 every.
Abbey Spoke Wrench




At Sea Otter final 12 months, Abbey confirmed us a prototype of their first spoke wrench. That spoke wrench is now out there in a three-sided model, with a four-sided model coming quickly. Initially, Abbey made the prototype out of stable aluminum simply to hurry the prototyping course of, figuring out that the ultimate product would have a metal reinforcement for the nipple slot. Whereas the aluminum fashions held up surprisingly nicely, the manufacturing variations have the metal reinforcement as promised, and are provided within the 3.23mm dimension, which is the equal of the black spoke wrench from Park Instrument.


The Spoke Wrench is designed to play nicely with the DT Swiss bladed spoke holder, and the Abbey Spoke Wrench is priced at $53.
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