Topeak has updated the top-of-the-line Alien bike multi-tool creation it not as big as well as lighter, as well as simpler than ever to lift an roughly full bike toolkit in your slot.

The ALiEN III CB DX comes in stainless steel (the alternative Aliens have been CrMo steel) as well as has the carbon-fiber shell to keep a weight down. The rather than childish alien-head on the side does offer a single role: it helps you realign a dual halves of the apparatus when putting them behind together.

As for tools, what does it have? Everything, pretty much. There are Allen-wrenches, screwdrivers, a chain-tool, 8,9 and 10mm box-wrenches, the tire-lever (just one, and it’s metal), the blade as well as even the place to store dual gangling sequence pins. The apparatus weighs in during the not-bad 260 g, or 9.15 oz, so it might not be comfy in the jersey slot, but in the bag you shouldn’t notice it.

I have the Topeak Hexus tool and I adore it. I snapped the tip off a single of the dual cosmetic tire-levers, as well as the chain tool could be a little some-more spacious for a fat track-chains I make use of, though alternative than which it only keeps on operative. The Alien should be just as durable as well as, tossed in the bag with a 15mm wrench, the gangling blood vessel as well as a mini-pump, should have certain you’re ready for anything. $104.

ALiEN III CB DX product page [Topeak around Urban Velo]