Tool Farkle for my motorcycles

Well, it's mainly for use on Natasha, my 1996 Ural Sportsman. One of the regularly scheduled things you're supposed to do on all motorcycles, but specially on Urals, is the checking of nuts and bolts for tightness.

I've had a couple of fasteners "dissapear" on me already so I spent some time this morning checking over every nut and bolt I could find and reach. There's a bunch! Not only that but as a bonus, I basically had to use every size in my metric set from 10mm to 19mm! What a PITA.

My beemer on the hand, requires about five sizes of metric wrenches. Sigh. Not only that but things don't tend to fall off the beemer in my experience.

So, to better and more smoothly do these checks in the future, I ordered this today from amazon.com via expeditiontools.com


It's called the HK1 Hydrokinetic Adjustable wrench, here's more information and photos of this beastie: LINK
One wrench, and I can tighten bolts/nuts from 7mm to 19mm. It'll save so much time I hope in searching for the right wrench.

I plan to also supplement the pot metal toolkit that came with the Ural with a Harbor Freight Metric Tool set. Perhaps a small jack as well to thrown in the sidecar trunk. Nice to have when fixing a tire and it'll function as ballast! It's all good.

Update: The tool, much as I tried to like it, is not really much of a help....