{"title":"Hobson-Zingo Tools","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHOBSON-ZINGO\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSummary: Our own line made up mostly of Rivendell-approved (and then private-labeled) Taiwan bike tools made by Taiwan’s best bike tool maker, who also makes car tools, and — let’s make this clear—knows how to make cutting tools that hold an edge, allen wrenches resist rounding out, and so on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThey’re made with as little plastic as possible, usually none. The maker took a month to wrap his head around that, but the enviro point finally hit home. What this means is that if you really think you need a padded handle here or there—for a master-link tool you’ll use five times a year at most and already has handles that can’t cut cheddar cheese— then wrap it with foamy bar tape and twine it off. Or do that or just to personalize it, but don’t think you’re improving it. A Hobson-Zingo is usable and ready for action “as received.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIronically and surprisingly to us and probably to you, some of the first-batch tools came packaged in plastic. It’s not as much plastic as you’ll take home from any shopping extravaganza, but it’s more than our goal of zero, and we’ll fix that going forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlso, there’s a little more chrome than we’d like to see.  What are we gonna do? Reject them and piss off the maker and kill the program, or make a check list for next time around? The latter, of course.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hz-chainwhip","title":"Hobson-Zingo Chain whip","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHobson-Zingo ChainWhip tool\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis chain-whip tool prevents the cassette from moving backwards while you use a wrench to remove the cassette lockring…so the cassette can slide off the hub. You need to do this when you wear out a cassette or want to change ratios. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow minimal and sleek style with Black ED coating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42355082854511,"sku":"TLHZCW-BLK","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/files\/20250211_Feb_product101.jpg?v=1739316500"},{"product_id":"hz-allen-keys","title":"Hobson Zingo Allen Keys","description":"\u003cp\u003eClass up your bike tool bucket with these shockingly black allens, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.5, 2, 1.5mm with a ball head on one end.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack cotton zippered carrying pouch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40741194236015,"sku":"TLHZAWS1","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/files\/805027_Hobson-Zingo_Allen_Wrench_Set_in_Cotton_Canvas_Bag.jpg?v=1778516288"},{"product_id":"hz-fixed-cup-wrench","title":"Hobson Zingo Fixed Cup Wrench 36mm","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt fits the flats and tightens traditional fixed cups on cup-and-cone bottom brackets. A $140 shop tool is better, but this hand tool will do the job, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere’s how: First turn the cup counter-clockwise (on most non-Italian frames) until it’s as tight as you can get it without the wrench slipping off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen have a friend hold the wrench onto the fixed cup and keep it from sliding off by pushing the heel of a hand on it, against the bottom bracket while the other hand stabilizes the wrench handle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen you get the side of a metal hammer and whack the handle of the wrench with the side of a hefty hammer to screw it on there really snugly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40741275762799,"sku":"TLHZW36","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/products\/hztool-8.jpg?v=1644351168"},{"product_id":"hz-bottom-bracket-tool","title":"Hobson Zingo Cartridge Bottom Bracket tool","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen used with a large adjustable wrench, it tighten or loosens both the non-drive side adjustable bearing cup on a normal Shimano or Tange cartridge bottom bracket. Nothing from Ace will do the job, so you might was well buy from your fine friends at Hobson-Zingo. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40741282578543,"sku":"TLHZCBB1","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/files\/20250211_Feb_product88.jpg?v=1739315712"},{"product_id":"hz-crown-race-whomper","title":"Hobson Zingo Crown Race Whomper","description":"\u003cp\u003eSometimes called a headset slammer, you grab it with a fist and a flexed bicep and pound the crown race onto the steer tube’s shoulder. Grease the shoulder first, and slam it on with two to four hard hits, as needed. If after four it’s still not level and seated, ask somebody stronger to do it for you. But this tool, super heavy, is as pro-quality as any we’ve seen, and seriously—if you can’t do it with this, it ain’t the tool. Or the crown race is the wrong size for your fork.  Comes with fittings for a range of headset sizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eaka slide hammer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40741283233903,"sku":"TLHZCRH1","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/products\/hztool-16.jpg?v=1644352124"},{"product_id":"tool-hobson-zingo-adjustable-pin-spanner","title":"Hobson-Zingo BB Adjustable Cup Pin Spanner for Tange Traditional Bottom Bracket","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn an English-threaded (normal and on our bikes) traditional cup-and-cone bottom bracket like the Tange one we sell, you adjust the bearings by tightening or loosening the adjustable bearing cup (opposite the crank side) by sticking the pins on this took in them and turning clockwise to tighten and counter-clockwise too loosen. Once the adjustment is fine—the spindle turns smoothly and without any play—you hold the adjustment in place with the same tool, while you tighten the lockring, to lock in the adjustment. We have a lockring tool, too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40794076151919,"sku":"TLHZAPS1","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/products\/hobsonZINGO-2.jpg?v=1650060258"},{"product_id":"tool-hobson-zingo-chainring-nut-wrench","title":"Hobson-Zingo Chainring Nut Wrench","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt fits into the notches on the nut on the negative side of the chainring and keeps it from spinning when you use a 5mm allen wrench to tighten the bolt on the other side. You can do without it if you grease the bolt threads and awkwardly use a tiny flat-bladed screwdriver to hold the nut in place, but this tool is made just for the task, and you’d be nuts not to get it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40794079101039,"sku":"TLHZCNW1","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/products\/hobsonZINGO-21.jpg?v=1650060150"},{"product_id":"tool-hobson-zingo-cable-housing-cutter","title":"Hobson-Zingo Cable Cutters","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe snipped more than 500 thick, 1.6mm brake cables with one of these, and the last ones were cut as cleanly as the first. The shop snob’s favorite brand is the red-handled, Swiss-made Felco.  These, from your trusted blood-brothers at Hobson-Zingo, seem every bit as good, have no plastic, and cost  1\/5\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e as much. It doesn’t take a math whiz or a PhD in economix to see the logic in the Hobson-Zingo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40794079527023,"sku":"TLHZCHC1","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/products\/hobsonZINGO-13.jpg?v=1650060001"},{"product_id":"tool-hobson-zingo-master-link-chain-pliers","title":"HOBSON-ZINGO Chain Quick Link Pliers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn theory and sometimes in practice, you can separate master links (for removing an old chain) by hand. The reality is sometimes a Will Smith slap in the face, and you’re there getting frustrated for fifteen minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It’s worth that for one use, but in fact, will last a thousand times that many, at least. Another example of, “It doesn’t take a genius to buy Hobson-Zingo.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40794079690863,"sku":"TLHZCQLP1","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/products\/hobsonZINGO-10.jpg?v=1650060088"},{"product_id":"tool-hobson-zingo-pedal-wrench","title":"Hobson-Zingo Pedal Wrench","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-family: courier new; font-size: medium;\" size=\"3\" face=\"courier new\"\u003eThere’s always a workaround for a pedal wrench, and if you rare install or remove pedals and are on a strict budget, skip a pedal wrench. Otherwise, don’t skip. The long lever and a slightly offset head makes it easy to remove pedals installed with too much force, and keeps your knuckles away from the chainrings, so if you goof, you still won’t get cut up.\u003cbr\u003eAll normal adult pedals take a 15mm wrench. A small handful take 8mm hex wrenches (allens); and some fit both. If you work on your own and your friends’ bikes, this is a good tool to have. \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40794082476143,"sku":"TLHZPW1","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/products\/hobsonZINGO-12.jpg?v=1650060211"},{"product_id":"tool-hobson-zingo-chain-breaker","title":"Hobson-Zingo Chain Breaker","description":"\u003cp\u003eEven in this age of chains with master links, if you work on enough bikes, you’ll find plenty of times you need a classic, international chain breaker. This one costs $ and will probably separate 45 chains before needing a new pin, which we have.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Tool","offer_id":41037511753839,"sku":"TLHZCB1","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Pin","offer_id":41037511786607,"sku":"TLHZCB1-PIN","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/products\/hobsonZINGO-15.jpg?v=1650060063"},{"product_id":"hobson-zingo-freewheel-tool","title":"Hobson Zingo Freewheel tool","description":"\u003cp\u003eFreewheel (not cassette) removal tool for Shimano, IRD, Sun Race, and probably some others (but not SunTour).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClamp it in a bench vice or use a huge crescent wrench to take that old stack of worn-out gears off your wheel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merry Sales\/Interloc Design Group (455)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40992359710831,"sku":"TLHZFW1","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7343\/products\/805009_Hobson-ZingoFreewheelTool.jpg?v=1666033058"},{"product_id":"hobson-zingo-patch-kit","title":"Hobson-Zingo $10 Cussin' Patch Kit","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest genius from the infertile minds at Hobson-Zingo. This be-tinned patch kit with a cussword cover is just the ticket the unoffendable bicycle rider. Buy it for the tin, the contents, below, are the gravy:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(1) \"Cussing Tin\" 3\" x 1.5\" x 3\/4\". \u003cstrong\u003eCurrently the world's best reusable patchkit tin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(8) Dime-sized normal patches. \u003cstrong\u003e Best size for most holes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(1) Quarter-sized normal patch. \u003cstrong\u003eAfter you use it go \"all dime- sized.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(1) Slightly bigger glueless patch, to slow a leak. \u003cstrong\u003eNo need to replace it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(1) Usable-sized  sandpaper patch. \u003cstrong\u003eRefresh it at a hardware store cheap.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(1) Basic instruction sheet that we didn't write, and it refers to abrading the puncture with a rasp, when in fact it should say \"the sandpaper.\" Rasps are those metal cheese-grater-like things that old Camel-brand and Schwinn-approved patch kits contained. Otherwise, the instructions are good, but in the final rubbing one, they show rubbing the patch with a finger, and we recommend a smooth side of the tire lever or some other implement you can really press down on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTip: If the slight rattle bothers you, put a wad of paper or anything in it. Just fill up the air. 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