Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 Reviews
Review score: 9.7/10 – Updated November, 2024
Latest Price: £724.99 (RRP: £724.99)
Take a look now to discover what makes Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 worthy of a review score of 9.7 out of 10.
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Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 features
Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3
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Spec 1
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Colour: Blue-Black Other Tools found with this Spec: 11 |
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Feature 1
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A wide variety of essential tools suitable for a wide variety of modern bikes Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 2
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High-quality materials Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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Can be used for general maintenance, cleaning, repairs and fine-tuning Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 4
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Bomb-proof Blue Box Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 5
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Tidy and organised storage with additional pockets, pouches, straps and open space allowing additional tools and parts to be added Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 6
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Contains 56 of Park Tool’s most commonly used items: Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 7
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ATD-1.2 Adjustable Torque Driver Other Tools found with this feature: 2 |
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AWS-1 Three-Way Hex Wrench Set: 4, 5, 6mm Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 9
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BBT-9 Bottom Bracket Tool for 16-Notch External Bearing Cups Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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BBT-32 Bottom Bracket Tool for 20 Notch Shimano® and ISIS® Drive Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 11
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BO-2 Bottle Opener Other Tools found with this feature: 2 |
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Feature 12
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CC-4 Chain Checker Other Tools found with this feature: 2 |
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CN-10 Professional Cable and Housing Cutter Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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CNW-2 Chainring Nut Wrench Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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CP-1.2 Cassette Pliers Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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CT-3.3 Chain Tool Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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CWP-7 Compact Universal Crank Puller Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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DCW-1 Double-Ended Cone Wrench: 13/14mm (2) Other Tools found with this feature: 1 |
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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 Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3.
The first thing is material. Looking at what Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 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 Park Tool 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 Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3
So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3.
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 Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £724.99 in our latest search.
Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.5 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 above average at £724.99.
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 0 cost more than Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 and 562 were cheaper.
Cost of Park Tool products
At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 260 products from Park Tool, of which 222 were in the Tools category.
For now though we’re looking at Park Tool branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £48.26 making this product above average.
You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Park Tool product we found was £1.49 and the highest price we could find from them was £724.99.
Of the 260 from Park Tool, 0 were more expensive than Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 and 259 were cheaper.
How much are Park Tool Tools?
We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Park Tool products that are listed in the Tools category.
The average price of the 222 products that match this search was £43.91, with the cheapest coming in at £1.49 and highest price was £724.99. With the average being £43.91, Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 comes in above average.
0 products that meet this search were more expensive than Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 and 221 were cheaper.
Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 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 Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 reviews there.
Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 9.9 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 Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 or another similar product, like Park Tool Cassette Pliers CP-12 reviews or Lezyne Classic Tubeless Kit 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 Park Tool, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.
YouTube Video of Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3
Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 reviews.
Summary
Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3. 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 9.7/10 overall.
Further product details
- Product ID 1: 25314714961
- Product ID 2: 756468UK
- Brand: Park Tool
- Model number: QKEK3
- RRP: £724.99
- EAN: 763477002990
- Description: Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 Built for portability and neatly organised in our world-famous Blue Box Tool Case, the Park Tool EK-3 Professional Travel and Event Kit is jam packed with 56 of the finest tools. This makes it the ideal kit for team, event or even the home mechanic. Features:A wide variety of essential tools suitable for a wide variety of modern bikesHigh-quality materialsCan be used for general maintenance, cleaning, repairs and fine-tuningBomb-proof Blue BoxTidy and organised storage with additional pockets, pouches, straps and open space allowing additional tools and parts to be added Contains 56 of Park Tool’s most commonly used items: ATD-1.2 Adjustable Torque DriverAWS-1 Three-Way Hex Wrench Set: 4, 5, 6mmBBT-9 Bottom Bracket Tool for 16-Notch External Bearing CupsBBT-32 Bottom Bracket Tool for 20 Notch Shimano and ISIS DriveBO-2 Bottle OpenerCC-4 Chain CheckerCN-10 Professional Cable and Housing CutterCNW-2 Chainring Nut WrenchCP-1.2 Cassette PliersCT-3.3 Chain ToolCWP-7 Compact Universal Crank PullerDCW-1 Double-Ended Cone Wrench: 13/14mm (2) DCW-2 Double-Ended Cone Wrench: 15/16mm (2) DCW-3 Double-Ended Cone Wrench: 17/18mmDSD-2 Derailleur Screwdriver: Cross TipDSD-4 Derailleur Screwdriver: Flat BladeDT-2 Rotor Truing ForkFR-5.2H Cassette Lockring Tool with HandleGSC-1 GearClean BrushHCW-15 36mm/32mm Headset WrenchHMR-8 8oz Shop HammerHT-8 8mm Hex ToolHXS-1.2 Hex Wrench SetLP-7 Utility PliersMLP-1.2 Master Link PliersMW-8 Metric Wrench: 8mmMW-9 Metric Wrench: 9mmMW-10 Metric Wrench: 10mmPAW-12 12″ Adjustable WrenchPW-4 Professional Pedal WrenchRR-12 Tape MeasureSW-0 Precision Spoke Wrench: .127″SW-2 Precision Spoke Wrench: .136″SZR-1 Shop ScissorsTL-6.2 Steel Core Tire LeversTWS-1 Torx Compatible Wrench SetUP-SET Utility Pick SetVC-1 Valve Core ToolZP-5 Flush Cut Pliers Buy Park Tool Accessories from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
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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 Park Tool Professional Travel and Event Kit EK-3 included,
Lezyne Tubeless Plug Refill reviews, Lezyne Tubeless CO2 Blaster reviews, or we really liked the look of Lezyne Tubeless Kit reviews as another alternative.