Feedback Sports has a unique new folding T-handled torque wrench called the Range Twist Torque Tool, developed to provide a compact solution for most of your low-torque cockpit adjusting needs. With a torque range from 2-8Nm, the folding wrench packs 10 mini tool bits into its handle, making for a nice everyday home wrenching setup to make sure not to overtighten lightweight carbon & aluminum cockpits or titanium bolts.
Plus, Feedback also recently launched some nice new Biolever tire levers made from more eco-friendly plastic.
Feedback Sports’ new 2-8Nm Range Twist Torque Tool
This new folding T-handle torque tool slots in between Feedback’s low-cost, carry-with-you-on-the-ride Reflex Fixed Torque Bit Driver and their pro mechanic-style Range Click Torque Wrench. It doesn’t aim to replace that shop-level tool, but instead to provide a much more affordable alternative to cyclists looking for a smaller and simpler tool to prevent overtightening sensitive components, especially lightweight cockpit parts.
So what’s new?
A few things really set this new Range Twist Torque Tool apart.
First off is its compact folding design. Closed, it is just 16.5mm (0.65″) in diameter and 127mm (5″) long making it easy to pop into a pocket or even a saddlebag. Then unfolded, it becomes a 91mm (3.6″) long T-handle wrench to reach tricky bolts, with a 86mm (3.4″) long arm to get plenty of leverage for low torque applications.
Then, it uses slightly rare, but still standard mini 4mm tool bits. They are well-suited (again) for low-torque tightening, like your sensitive cockpit components. And still plenty strong. The smaller bit size also allowed Feedback to tuck 6 bits with 10 common functions securely into the knurled head of the tool so you wouldn’t worry about losing the less-common bits.
Lastly, it uses a very basic, but still reasonably accurate torsion bar for metering-out the correct amount of torque. Just twist and line up the little laser-etched markings to hit the whole number torque setting you need. One downside of this torsion bar-style id that technically you shouldn’t ever use it to loosen bolts – a real drawback with its uncommon bits. But as long as you don’t loosen a bolt tightened to more than this tool’s 8Nm max, it shouldn’t affect accuracy. In any case, the laser-marked arrows make it easy to see that the tool is starting from zero in the first place, so that point should be moot.
Tech details
- fully CNC-machined aluminum construction, with magnetic bit holder
- folding T-handle design, with integrated bit storage inside
- 2-8Nm torsion bar style torque wrench measurement
- 1Nm increment torque markings – no pre-setting, just twist and go to the desired torque
- uses standard mini 4mm hex-shank tool bits (not conventional 1/4″ bits)
- 10 S2 hardened steel tool bits are included, some of which are double-sided
- includes: 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5 & 6mm hexes; T10 & T25 torxes; and #2 Phillips & 3.5mm flat head screwdrivers
- 94g, claimed. 16.5mm x 127mm folded
Feedback Range Twist Torque Tool – Pricing & availability
Just as it functionally fills the gap between the very basic $35 Reflex Fixed Torque Bit Driver kit, its separately available $25 Reflex Torque extensions, and the bigger shop-quality $120 Range Click Torque Wrench, this new folding home torque wrench slots in between price-wise, too. The new Feedback Range Twist Torque Tool sells for $75 / €85. That makes it a pretty affordable way to safeguard your fancy cockpit components. Get yours now directly from Feedback or your local bike shop.
Feedback eco-friendly Biolever tire levers, too
Also now available are some new tire levers. I generally get the feeling that any new tire lever design is one too many. Meaning I’m reluctant to try switching to new levers when I already have ones that work. But the Feedback Biolevers have a nice trick up their sleeve in being made from a new bio-based nylon material.
The $6 pair of levers is molded out of a plastic that is actually created by processing plant sugars into 100% renewable carbon as the basis of the nylon, instead of starting with fossil fuels. Performance-wise, it’s just as tough as conventional plastic, but with fewer negative environmental impacts.
Function-wise, I’ve been using the new 117mm/4.6″-long red and black levers for a few weeks. They work well prying tires on & off, have a useful spoke hook opposite the thin bead hook, and snap-together for storage. Nothing fancy, just a couple of new tire levers that are slightly better for the planet.
