Others are made to receive the square drive of a ratchet wrench.
(Before the era of commercial polymers, the straps were of leather or rubber.)
Other straps are bands of spring steel, moderately flexible, slightly firmer and more likely to mar than the polymer variants.
A chain whip is a tool used to tighten and loosen threaded sprockets on a bicycle.
They look a lot like an oil-filter wrench of the strap type (except they are a flat piece of metal that wraps around the piston).