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A Multi-Function Bicycle-Friendly Comb Named Headgehog Is On Kickstarter & It’s Not As Ridiculous As It Sounds

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The Headgehog is a hair comb made from stainless steel, and it fits in your wallet so you can carry it with you everywhere. It’s extremely important to make sure your hair is wrangled back into place after taking off your helmet, Producer Zootility Tools tells us it is bicycle friendly, since anything that combines a wrench, a bottle opener and hair care is sure to get cyclists excited.

All joking aside, the Headgehog is a real product, and is already 200%+ of its funding goal. It incorporates a lot of relatively unrelated, yet commonly needed features into one device, and the screwdriver and wrench make it bicycle specific. Zootility also makes the Pocket Monkey, another flat, wallet-fitting tool. A truly bicycle-specific tool may incorporate some more functions, and it appears that inventor Nate Barr had more overall utility in mind. . They really tried to maximize the functions for the small space, and packed it with wrenches, a bottle opener, a phone kickstand, and even a chip clip. Available in stainless, blue, purple or green for $12.

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groghunter
groghunter
9 years ago

For people who live in the desert, this makes a lot of sense. Lots of us carry a comb for one very important reason: Cholla(& other cactus as well, but mostly(shudder) Cholla.)

J
J
9 years ago

The comb tree is a life saver

jason
jason
9 years ago

The four ‘wrenches’ are all labeled as imperial sizes. Even if your bike actually had hex bolts this wouldn’t work.

DiGi
DiGi
9 years ago

I can’t wait to comb my hair with this bike-grease-covered money clip that happens to be holding my chip bag shut.

While this looks like a fun product, I wish each of its uses didn’t hinder or invalidate the next.

anonymous
anonymous
9 years ago

Self greasing comb.

Greg
Greg
9 years ago

I don’t understand

Naton
Naton
9 years ago

I’ll wait for the 29er specific version thanks.

nightfend
nightfend
9 years ago

Chip clip?

ifbikes
ifbikes
9 years ago

cute, sort of. stupid, yes. I don’t even think they know what they are making. Jack of a few unrelated trades, master of none.

Gummee!
Gummee!
9 years ago

Having lived where the jumping cholla did just that, this makes lots of sense. Otherwise? Not so much.

…and lots of metric sizes have SAE equivalents.

M

ylvis
ylvis
9 years ago

how did this get funded? really america?

xcracer
xcracer
9 years ago

@ Gummee!
1/4″ = 6.35mm
5/16″ = 7.8125mm
3/8″ = 9.525mm
7/16″ = 11.1125mm

Some imperial & metric sizes come close to matching (3/4″ = 19.05mm) but all of these won’t really work on metric hardware.

xcracer
xcracer
9 years ago

@ Gummee!
There aren’t many imperial and metric sizes that match nicely. The only ones are really 19mm and 3/4″ (19.05mm) and 5/16″ and 8mm (7.9375mm). For the rest, yes, you can get away with larger discrepancies when you get into larger sizes (example 5/8″ and 16mm). But, for the sizes that this product has, they’re not that useful for a bike. 8mm is really the only useful one – I don’t recall the last time I saw a 11mm on a bike. The other two won’t fit well enough to be useful.
For reference
1/4″ = 6.35mm
5/16″ = 7.9375mm
3/8″ = 9.525mm
7/16″ = 11.1125mm
Cheers

Dirtyonethirty
Dirtyonethirty
9 years ago

Of course they could come up with a metric version, however that wouldn’t take away from pointy stainless steel stabbing your palm when you try to actually wrench.

And what the hell is a chip clip? Like to hold your bag of chips (crisps) closed?

And can we please have a moratorium on anything that boasts a bottle opener? If you haven’t figured out how to use a basic lever as an opener you have bigger fish to fry in life.

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