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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby KGB » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:33 am
Add:
-Multi tool, I prefer one with a chain tool and spoke key included. -$5 note for emergency snacks or as emergency tyre boot.
-ID, an old licence or something.
I carry one spare tube and some glueless patches. First flat is just a tube swap, then patch any after that. I find the glueless patches a temp job only so will fix everything up once I get home.
Roll your tubes tightly as well to squeeze all the air out and save space.
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby KGB » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:36 am
Any decent brand multi will do me as long as it has the required tools (chain breaker, Allen keys, small screwdriver, 15mm spanner).
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby barefoot » Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:51 am
I'm pretty sure it's just one tube, a couple of tyre levers and a multitool. I have a pump attached to my frame.
Most of my riding is with a bunch, so second spare tubes are kind of a community resource. If you flat, you use your spare tube; if you double-flat, you scrounge one.
If I'm out on a short-ish solo ride and somehow manage to double-flat (I can't remember this ever happening), then I'll call for rescue... even if it's a taxi rescue, or a hitch-hike to public transport or whatever. Like I would have to if I destroyed a tyre, or broke a frame or snapped a crank or any of the other possible-but-unlikely breakdowns.
If I'm going for a long solo ride (>100km and/or remote and/or otherwise high risk), I'll carry more... an extra tube and/or patch kit... in a bigger saddle bag that also has space for some food and supplies.
It's a trade-off between travelling light and being self-sufficient. On a solo tour across South America, you'd probably want to take extra spokes, brake pads, spare tyre, gear and brake cables etc. etc.. For a short morning bunch ride, you wouldn't.
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby WarbyD » Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:03 am
MTB saddle bag has spare tube (I run tubeless, so this is "just in case"), derailleur hanger, quick link, tyre levers and a gel.
Both bikes I carry my pump on the frame (with a cable tie to ensure it stays there on the MTB)
The ID is a good idea.. I really should get around to putting photocopies of my license in them with some emergency contacts..
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby jasonc » Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:39 am
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby fergy1987 » Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:34 pm
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby Duck! » Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:56 pm
I'm not sure why you'd need spooks though, unless they're some form on security system to scare people away.
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby Toyopet » Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:40 pm
Equipment carried in a small saddle bag
1 x tube
2 x tyre levers
1 x micro pump
1 x Lezyne dry patch kit, with a few dry patches (wet patches & glue may be better)
1 x presta/schrader adapter, for petrol station air top-ups
Additional – for long group rides, where quick repair time is important:-
Equipment carried in a tool canister bidon – mounted in my second bidon cage on the seat-tube
1 x CO2 kit
1 x mini tool with multiple allen keys and driver bits
Additional – for long isolated rides, where help is almost non-existent:-
Stuffed in the tool canister bidon, or jersey pockets
1 x chain breaker (haven’t busted a chain yet)
1 x additional tube
1 x spare tyre (a $20 note may be sufficient for a temp fix on minor tears)
Anything else
Spare gaffer tape wrapped around a film canister (if you can find one) is more useful and easier to carry than a spare spoke.
You can then tape a broken spoke to the next good spoke and keep on riding.
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby cp123 » Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:11 pm
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby eeksll » Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:32 pm
+1, those parktools tyre levers are crap. I always seem to pinch the tube between the lever and the tyre. Doesnt seem to happen with any of my other tyre levers.KGB wrote:Park tyre levers are pretty average. Try and find the flat, wide ones from michelin, continental or pedros. I have some birzman ones which seem pretty good.
Any decent brand multi will do me as long as it has the required tools (chain breaker, Allen keys, small screwdriver, 15mm spanner).
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby kb » Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:00 am
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby barefoot » Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:21 pm
Multitools are a compromise between useability and portability. If you're attempting to use one as your day-to-day tool kit, you'll very quickly run into the usability compromise. Nothing beats a proper tool for the job.
A decent set of allen keys is not expensive at all. At least one of my sets cost <$10, and they're nice tools.
If you use a multi-tool chain breaker too much you'll stuff it... and then you'll have a tool with a munged chain breaker that doesn't work properly when you need it (the pin on my multitool chainbreaker is bent now... I got about 15 years out of that one, but it's a pointless inclusion on the multitool now).
What else is on a multi-tool? Screwdrivers (a couple of bucks at the Reject Shop if you can't spring for a decent set at your hardware shed of choice)? Nasty metal tyre levers (better to grab a set of plastic ones)? Aluminium ring spanners that probably won't turn the awkwardly located bolt you need it to turn, and flogs out after about 3 uses?
Don't plan on using your multi-tool for normal workshop use. Grab some real tools.
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby twowheels » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:45 pm
http://www.topeak.com/products/Mini-Tools/ALiEN_II
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby Uncle Just » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:53 pm
Ghost shifting perhaps?I'm not sure why you'd need spooks though, unless they're some form on security system to scare people away.
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
Postby WarbyD » Fri Aug 08, 2014 5:05 pm
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Re: Saddle bag stuff recommendation
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