Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool Review

Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool Reviews

Review score: 9.1/10 – Updated September, 2024

Latest Price: £17.99 – Save 33% (RRP: £26.99)

Take a look now to discover what makes Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool worthy of a review score of 9.1 out of 10.

Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool Review


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Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool features

Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool specs

Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool
Spec 1

Colour: Silver-Black

Other Tools found with this Spec: 15

Feature 1

Hex Wrenches: #2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8

Other Tools found with this feature: 1

Feature 2

Torx: T-10, t-25

Other Tools found with this feature: 1

Feature 3

Screwdrivers: Phillips #1, Flat #1

Other Tools found with this feature: 1

Feature 4

Weight: 166 g

Other Tools found with this feature: 1

Price

£17.99

Number of Reviews

9

Review Score

4.7 / 5

Average score in category: 4.4/5

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Quality

Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Tools. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool.

The first thing is material. Looking at what Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.

Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Tools. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.

There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Tools. Brands like Crank Brothers are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.

Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Tools category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.


Comparing Prices

Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Tools.

It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.

Price of Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool.

We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £17.99 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 8.4 out of 10 for price.

Average price of Tools

Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Tools.

We found 563 in the Tools category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £33.54, making it below average at £17.99.

It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Tools. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £724.99, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £0.99.

With 563 products available we worked out that 248 cost more than Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool and 301 were cheaper.

Cost of Crank Brothers products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 6 products from Crank Brothers, of which 4 were in the Tools category.

For now though we’re looking at Crank Brothers branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £12.82 making this product above average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Crank Brothers product we found was £5.99 and the highest price we could find from them was £26.99.

Of the 6 from Crank Brothers, 1 were more expensive than Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool and 4 were cheaper.

How much are Crank Brothers Tools?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Crank Brothers products that are listed in the Tools category.

The average price of the 4 products that match this search was £9.74, with the cheapest coming in at £5.99 and highest price was £17.99. With the average being £9.74, Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool comes in above average.

0 products that meet this search were more expensive than Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool and 3 were cheaper.


Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool Reviews

Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.

There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.

1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.

2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.

Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 9.7 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Tools category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.4 out of 5.

Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool or another similar product, like Silca HX-One Home & Travel Essential Kit reviews or Silca T-Ratchet + TI reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Tools.


Brand

As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Tools. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Crank Brothers, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.


YouTube Video of Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool reviews.


Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 9.1/10 overall.


Further product details

  • Product ID 1: 26781787085
  • Product ID 2: 652809UK
  • Brand: Crank Brothers
  • Model number: CRB-15742
  • RRP: £26.99
  • Description: Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool Housed in a unique, shield-shaped body, the Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool is built to garner more leverage on hard to move bolts. Held in place by the magnetic centre piece, all of your tools and attachments are kept in a neat, compact shape for easy carriage in your pocket or hydration pack. Workshop Quality ToolKit Three containers form around the Y tool, one containing a basic puncture repair kit, one holding 6 socket bits for one of the Y tools and the final left empty for any spares or extra bits as you require. Coming complete with seven hex wrenches, two screwdrivers and two Torx tools, the Y-12 is a multi-faceted and hard wearing kit for working on-the-go. ¬†Features: Hex Wrenches: #2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 Torx: T-10, t-25 Screwdrivers: Phillips #1, Flat #1 Weight: 166 g Buy Crank Brothers Workshop from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Full Category: Workshop > Tools
  • Savings percentage from RRP: 33%
  • Unisex
  • 9
  • Adult

Other options for Tools

As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Tools. 563 in fact.

A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Crank Brothers Y-12 Multitool included,
Silca Italian Army Knife Multi Tool reviews, Pedros Chain Keeper reviews, or we really liked the look of Pedros Apprentice Tool Kit reviews as another alternative.

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