Reddit reviews Wera 05073593001 950 Spkl/9 Sm N Multicolor L-Key Set, Metric, Blacklaser, 9 Pieces

Wera 05073593001 Metric, Blacklaser, 9 Pieces

As someone who bought a Wabi after recently getting into bikes for commuting, buy a torque wrench and some good hex keys. Those rear wheel bolts will often slip if not properly torqued and unless you have quality tools, you will round the bolts like my Craftsman's did trying to get to that torque. The torque wrench will be useful if you ever install or reinstall some parts. After doing so without a torque wrench to tell me when to stop on the stem a few times, the face-plate was near catastrophic failure because I over-tightened the bolts and cracked the aluminum in several places. Almost every problem I've had with the bike has had to do with not knowing how tight something should be, and buying a torque wrench sooner could have saved me hundreds of dollars and so many hassles.

Wow. That Home Depot stuff. Ugh.

I mean . . . I use tools fairly regularly. And assuming I can get equal functionality, I will definitely consider aesthetics. Even most guys, at least those who take care of their tools, appreciate well-made and good-looking tools. They just have a different sense of aesthetics, usually.

And I like pretty tools, even? Like some tools are actually brightly colored and attractive as a design element. Like high-end L wrench sets sometimes have different colors to help you differentiate different sizes at a glance. Something like this set from Wera. If I didn't already have a quality set, I'd definitely buy that instead because Wera is a great brand, and those are cute.

This will sound dumb, but I even own one or two tools that I never used because they're cute enough that I just like to look at them.

I think what annoys me here is that this was obviously designed by dudes with a Pink It And Shrink It design philosophy, which I hate more than anything. Lacking any real sense of aesthetics, they just decided that what women really need is to be penned into a box of Barbie-like hyperfemininty by men. I sometimes like pink things, and I sometimes like stereotypically feminine things, but I don't like it when it's men shoving ugly, patronizing, pink merch down my throat. Like here, buy my crap to validate your femininity. Sorry, bro, I'm not that insecure! I'm not a man.

That stuff looks like garbage, too. Part of the reason I hate Pink It And Shrink It design is that . . . they don't even shrink it. They don't do anything. Almost as a rule, "women's specific design," is a lie, and companies do little or nothing to design gear that takes into account the ergonomic needs of women. Like for tools, women have smaller hands on average, and certain tools would really benefit from being a little smaller for women. But they wouldn't do that because we're an afterthought. They just take their dude's gear, do a shitty recolor job, and then sell it at a premium, resulting in kit that's often both /worse/ and /sold at a mark-up/.