Rehook aims to make refitting a dropped chain easy

I've no issue with someone making a business out of this item, but I'd never need one with having a chain catcher and an old-skool waxed chain.

I really can't believe that people would even consider buying this tool. All you need do is carry ONE PAIR of disposable gloves, and that allows you to resolve a LARGE host of problems without getting your hands dirty, including putting your chain back on, changing a puncture, and so forth. Even without the tool and without a pair of gloves it really isn't that messy a job...you can use a stick, tissue, or just about anything free laying around to do the same job. Honestly, save the planet and do not be fooled into buying this entirely limited, useless tool that I guarntee no proper cyclist would ever ever be seen dead with.   I really do wonder about Road CC when this article actually says : "Never get your hands mucky again with this simple tool for refitting a dropped chain".  And that is used on Amazon!  Embarrasing!  You should be ashamed Road CC for supporting this tool.

Funnily enough these popped up on Sport Pursuit this morning for £8.99 which seems a bit strange if they are only recently lauched and being sold for their full price elsewhere. They were actually labelled as "chain tools" on SP and it took me a few seconds to realise they weren't actually for breaking and repairing chains.

These comments are making me chuckle.

I actually own one of these!

It was my birthday recently and my, non-cyclist, wife apparently ventured in to the LBS and bought the first 5 things she saw.

I ended up with 2 gels, sugar free electrolyte tabs, a Vittoria branded ass saver and this.

Next year I'll have to ask them if they can move the Superleggera closer to the door...

Arr, I be buying me one of these to go with me wooden leg.

A Deda Dog Fang costs a fiver.

Eh?   You can just get rolling* and gently press the front derailleur** against the big ring whilst gently pedalling***.   You don't need to use your hands.

* You were probably rolling when your chain came off.  In which case just keep rolling.

** Does not work on 1x systems or single speed.  If this happened to you on a fixie then there are probably more serious issues to deal with than refitting the chain

*** If you're really fussed about scratches on the pick-up ramps on the inside of the big ring then you could use one of the alternative suggestions above.

This is why shorts should always be black.

They might have a market for this product, but only if price is dropped 90%. 

Topeak Power 21 multitool from the 90s...chain tool/ link tensioner....just ad effective...oh wait...I'd have to take it out my pocket then it's neoprene pouch...or I could just use my hands....imagine getting dirty hands....dear me such an inconvenience....

They could have made it double ended so that you can use it to fit quick-links more easily.

My recommendation is to always carry a paperclip - even lighter and you can use it to press reset buttons on tech stuff as well (or iPhone SIM trays). Also, they're quite cheap.

Plastic gloves are free at your local filling station

bent piece of coat-hanger wire will do the job for nowt...

Having watched the video, it does seem a clever tool, but there's no way I'd spend anything near £13. Keeping hands clean is probably more important for utility cycling, but then you may well have a chain guard for that...

Been using one of the free disposable ones you find littered round the countryside and in towns as well if you are prepared to do a little hunting - they can usually be found near to trees lying in the road and once used they biodegrade... whats not to like

Never really thought of a bit of grease on my hands as problem

Really?  £8 for 100 for disposable gloves.  There's a pair held onto my tyre lever with an elastic band and a box of them in the garage.  They also have more than one use......

Talking of which, that wheelie bin is stinking  :o(

Snapped a chain in France recently, wrestling getting it back together with my chain tool completely forgetting a had some latex gloves in another pocket of the pannier. Couple of wipes on the dry grass though got rid of most of the gubbins and then use a wet wipe which i always carry (the ones individually wrapped), It was at that point reaching for the wipe that I realised I'd forgotten the gloves which were next to the wet wipe, doh!

As above, park tools tyre lever does the job of the tool being sold for a silly amount and you can buy a shed load for the price of one.

it's a crap idea trying to dupe people into buying over-priced single function item, in the bike industry it'll never work ...

Crazy. 

I won't be buying one.  

are they sure they have the price correct?   they would sell far more at £2.99 than £12.99....   

I always mean to pack some disposable gloves in my saddlebag but never quite get round to it.  A dock leaf or some grass is enough to prevent my hands getting messy, though.

Far easier to just use your fingers and then clean then on a paper tissue, wet grass or whatever’s to hand…

Or buy 3 Park Tools tyre levers for £3.49 which have a hook on the end for this very reason (or so I've always thought) http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Park-Tool-TL1-2-Tyre-Lever-Set-Of-3-Carded_83360...

Also do people not wear wrist watches any more???

no oil on that chain and why is the guy wearing a wrist watch? is this an april fool from the 70's?