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VICTORINOX SWISSTOOL

Swiss knife and tool outfit Victorinox has launched its range of SwissTools in the new black burnished steel and we’ve got one. I like a tool (steady on) that can fix small dramas on the road. You’ll rarely need it these days, but splicing a wire, tightening errant fasteners and screws, being able to cut a cable tie… you know the niggles that can happen.

This thing is not going to allow you to do a top-end rebuild on the road, but it may just save your bacon when one of the zillions of little things that can take place on a trip inevitably does. You can be stopped by the smallest

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