How many times have you found yourself fighting with your bike? Has it ever led to bleeding knuckles? That’s usually the moment just before a slightly more mechanically minded fellow biker shows up behind you and saves the day, but at the same time making your struggle seem pathetic. Don’t you wish that person had shown up before the frustration? Even better, what if you could carry that knowledge and experience around for whenever a bike repair need arose?
The tools, however, aren’t much good if you don’t know how to use them, which is what makes the Instruction Booklet the crown jewel of the kit. The small, lightweight booklet provides step-by-step and easy to understand instructions on dealing with bike related blow-ups, covering scenarios such as a broken chain, wobbly wheel, brake problems and more.
The Overview:
A Hero Kit is a bike repair kit that is small enough to fit in the back pocket of your shorts or jersey – and certainly in your backpack or saddle bag – and powerful enough to get you (or your friend) out of the most common difficulties you might encounter on your ride. Based on input from expert riders and bike mechanics, they have assembled a kit full of tools, materials, and easy-to-follow instructions that will empower riders of all abilities to be the hero of your own ride.
Hero Enterprises has a strong commitment to the environment and to community. In support of these commitments, they donate 10 percent of their profits to organizations and events that promote healthy communities and healthy ecosystems. 
The Test:
While riding along my local town mountain bike network, I got a flat. Before carrying a hero kit, I did not carry anything for basic bike maintenance and just assumed I could always push out if anything happened. After one flat and no means of changing it I got the Hero Kit. It has everything I need to fix a flat and any other potential problem, which could foil a fun day’s worth of riding.
Rating
4.5 (out of 5)
Design: The products inside the bag are great, but the bag itself is a trick to get to latch and stay closed. +.7
Performance: Everything you might need paced into a small ziplock bag. You can never be too prepared while biking. +1
Style: The hero kits come in several different options a road bike kit, mountain bike kit +1
Durability: Stuffed to the gills inside a nifty pouch. The pouch likes to come unzip-locked so make sure you have it securely tightened. +.7
Comfort: It fits inside both a saddle bag and into a mountain bike backpack. +1
Buy the Hero Kit today and enjoy peace of mind on your next ride.