www.blessthisstuff.com: Winner of the Red Dot design award, Prepstation by Topeak is a great tools set for the race support or the home mechanic. The easy moving trolley tool station has 5” wheels and 6 compartments containing 40 sets of professional shop quality bike tools. The sturdy and mobile case features an extendable working base, expanding trays and telescoping handle.
3 comments:
Finally someone created a tool station that can stand up to the ISS's tool chest. This tool station is friggin sweet but like most really cool tool stations and rolling tool chests like this one they are only available in Europe. Come on europe, we like to keep our tools organized efficiently too! I recently have become a big fan of buying a medium sized pelican case and installing an organization system for tools. Several of the rigging integrators at Tait Towers use the pelican case due to the ease of being able to Click it shut and check it with their baggage when they have to fly to a location. Unfortunately I am a broke college student who has to wait another few years to be able to afford such amenities.
This thing is very cool looking but I am wary of the materials that it is made of. Plastic tool cases always make me nervous because they crack and are difficult or impossible to fix. This seems well designed and simple but I doubt in practice that this item will hold up for more than a year in a touring environment. Pelican cases are cool and I have seen some great custom made road cases but I have seen very few tool kits that have the capacity for large amounts of tools and can stand up to a beating.
My ratings (out of 5):
3pts for concept
2pts for design
1pt for execution
-2pts for versatility
Here's the thing, I think it's a neat design, but like Luke points out - I'm weary of the material choices. Especially with the pivoting and cantilevering sections. Which leads to the lack of versatility. The reason this tool station works is because it's specifically designed for a certain set of tools - but I don't want to be limited to the types and styles of tools I use and this set up appears to only work in one way. I think the concept is there though, it's compact, it travels well, it keeps things organized. But overall it's just to limited.
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