French cycling accessory company Zéfal has a new compact AFA 8 Plus multi-tool with a neat little mini glove box mount that tucks in under pretty much any bottle cage. The small flat AFA multi-tool has all the core tool bits you’ll regularly need, plus a chain breaker, and it all snaps securely by itself into a tidy mount on your bike so you’ll never have to dig for a tool to make quick trailside adjustments.
I always appreciate a good multi-tool and love any accessory that takes advantage of unused space on the bike. This new Zefal AFA 8 Plus setup looks to be a little bit of both. As a tool alone it looks to be a nice compact solution of 4 short bits nested under 4 longer ones, all built into the end of a simple alloy chain breaker. 40mm Heat Shrink
But it’s the slim storage that caught my attention. The multi-tool snaps securely into a reinforced plastic bracket that bolts either above or below a standard bottle cage, so it’s easy access to get to your tools.
No more digging into a saddle bag to fish out a tool. No need to carry a tool in your jersey pocket. And no more forgetting a tool at home.
The Zefal AFA 8 Plus tool itself is an aluminum chain tool with machined steel bits. A flat screwdriver, 2mm, 2.5mm & 3mm hexes fold in first at about 2.5cm long, then over top of those are a T25, 4mm, 5mm & 6mm bits at a bit more than 5cm long. The tool itself is just under 8cm long x 5cm wide, with the 8-12sp compatible chain breaker.
The mount/glove box is made of fiber-reinforced polypropylene, and is 23.5cm long x 5.6cm wide. It adds a few millimeters under your cage (Zefal includes appropriately longer mountain bolts), then tapers to a max 18mm thick where it is sandwiched between the top of your bottle and the frame – or run it under your cage where it will extend at most 15.5cm beyond the lower cage bolt.
Sold as a set of tool + carrier, the Zefal AFA 8 Plus tool retails for 45€ and has a claimed combined weight of 154g. And beyond the 8 bits, plus a chain tool, Zefal also built in a bottle opener too, since you can never have too many ways to open a post-ride adult beverage. Get it now direct from Zéfal of their regular shop retailer network.
Cory Benson is the EU Tech Editor of Bikerumor.com.
Cory has been writing about mountain bikes, enduro, cyclocross, all-road, gravel bikes & bikepacking for over 25 years, even before the industry gave some these names. Prior to Bikerumor, Cory was a practicing Architect specializing in environmental sustainability, has designed bike shops & bike components and worked as a bike shop mechanic.
Based in the Czech Republic for 15+ years, he is a technical mountain biker, adventurous gravel rider, short & medium-haul bikepacker. Cory travels extensively across Europe riding bikes, meeting with key European product developers, industry experts & tastemakers for an in-depth review of what’s new, and what’s coming next.
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