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The roll-up tool-bag is probably only hours younger than the invention of tools themselves: Soon after whacking away at a monolith with a femur, or cutting his thumb on a sharpened flint, the handy caveman would have needed a place to stow his kit. One dead, skinned woolly mammoth later – thunk! shik-shak! – and the tool-roll was born, complete with a furry surface on which our inventive neanderthal friend could wipe his greasy hands.
My poor knowledge of history aside, the tool roll is a great invention. And Timbukt2's Tool Shed tool-roll (say that five times quickly) is now on my shopping list. The $35 tarp bag has pockets for your bike tools with an elastic strip at the top to keep long wrenches in place, and a netting pocket for small spares, chain-ring bolts and so on. The roll lies flat in use and once you're done, you cinch it up and toss it in your bag.
Importantly, it's also greaseproof. The Tool Shed comes in at a half-kilo (1.1-pounds): not the lightest roll, but it looks like it might last long enough to be your only roll.
I have a couple Timbukt2 bags already, and I love them. Just one thing, Timbukt2 designers: the strap on my mini-messenger bag is way too stiff. It's nice that it'll outlast me, but does it have to cut into my neck every time I wear it, too?
Tool Shed [Timbukt2 via Uncrate]
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