{"id":4028,"date":"2018-11-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/knirps-umbrella\/"},"modified":"2018-11-10T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T19:40:09","slug":"knirps-umbrella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/knirps-umbrella\/","title":{"rendered":"Knirps X1 Umbrella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in London, which is pretty rainy, and so the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B001RLPBTQ\/cooltools-20\">Knirps X1<\/a> ($40) I&#8217;ve had for many years has seen plenty of use. It&#8217;s both highly durable and extremely compact: it folds down to the size of a two D-cell Maglite (about 6 \u00bd inches). Folded, it&#8217;s much smaller than the GoLite umbrella <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/golite-gear\/\">previously reviewed<\/a> on Cool Tools, which is 25.5 inches long and doesn&#8217;t collapse. The Knirps is just a few grams heavier, and its coverage radius (37 inches) is 16 inches wider than the GoLite&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an excellent compact umbrella, but the trade-off for its extreme portability is a too-small handle. The minimal size of the X1 leaves little room for a proper handle, and therefore the design incorporates a shallow cup into which the canopy tips slot when the umbrella is folded. The cup is about an inch and a half in diameter &#8212; too small and shallow to offer much purchase in windy weather.<\/p>\n<p>This makes using the wrist-loop (which, to its credit, is strong and firmly attached to the cup) a must. I hold the cup low in my hand and grip the tube above it like a golf club &#8212; thumb pressed on the tube, with the first two fingers wrapped around it. This isn&#8217;t so comfortable for prolonged use, but it&#8217;s enough to hold the umbrella steady in gusty weather, although not steady enough to stop it being blown about a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultracompact rain shield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32546,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions\/32546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}