Essential kit ??

[s.m.h.]

What do you always take with you when you leave the house? Keys phone and credit card or 1/2 a spare bike??

What do you consider to be an essential bit of kit that you dont like to leave behind?

Trying to list what I need to get, so I dont get stranded!

[henrycrun]

Spare tube, levers and pump. Needle nose pliers for pulling thorns from tyres

[Scraggles]

got a kit with tyre levers, bike spanner in a bag with old leatherman - needle nose pliers and blade etc

tyre repair kit, map of local area with some bogroll and a tyre pump

[AyBee]

Phone, inner tube, self-stick patches, multitool, pump, tyre levers. Job done

[Rouleur]

2 x spare tubes are essential IMO

[s.m.h.]

So do you carry a tool roll/ bag or have a rucksack on?

[gbbird]

Mobile phone, glasses, mini tool kit, MP3 player, puncture repair kit, glueless patches, pump, money and cigs are the things i never leave home without.

Edited by gbbird on Tuesday 10th November 22:31

[Gazzab]

Camelbak, inner tube, crank bros multi tool, phone, 2 x levers, puncture repair kit, pump, cash, v small torch (in case my main lights go at night), spare batteries for rear light...

[AyBee]

gbbird said:

Mobile phone, glasses, mini tool kit, puncture repair kit, glueless patches, pump, money and cigs are the things i never leave home without.

Call yourself a proper cyclist?

Rouleur said:

2 x spare tubes are essential IMO

Why 2 inner tubes? Or are you just puncture prone?

s.m.h. said:

So do you carry a tool roll/ bag or have a rucksack on?

On the road bike, usually just stuffed in the bike top pockets or in the saddle bag, on the mtb, probably a mix of bike top pocket and camelback.

[Rouleur]

s.m.h. said:

So do you carry a tool roll/ bag or have a rucksack on?

Saddlebag on the road, Camelbak when I used to ride a MTB.

[big_peaches]

In a topeak cliped undersaddle 'medium':
tube
levers
small very small 6piece multitool
leeches
iPhone
inhaler

smallbottle on cage with a tiny tiny Blackburn micro pump.

I have a small saddle bag for road only days which I ont take phone and inhaler and leeches, i don't even know why take levers I never use them lol

[Rouleur]

AyBee said:

Rouleur said:

2 x spare tubes are essential IMO

Why 2 inner tubes? Or are you just puncture prone?

Not really puncture prone, but the other week I forgot to check for what had caused the flat and the 2nd one came in handy

After 20+ years of riding you'd think I would have learned by now

[cone]

For off road riding , in my camelback are 2 tubes + repair patches, tyre levers, multitool, allen keys, pump with gaffa taped round it, spare pads, split link , mech hanger,zip ties, phone , wallet . rain cape , buff (or a balaclaver this time of year). Oh and a camera. Then the wife also carries her own tubes , pads, cape, first aid kit and FOOD .

Edited by cone on Tuesday 10th November 08:10

[Lord Pikey]

For road ride

phone and keys and maybe cash card


Offroad ride.

Multi tool, cash card, phone and keys.

[Rolls]

not a great deal i'd have said:
2 tubes
leaches
couple of spare chain links
pump
tyre levers
mulittool
spare pads
mech hanger
Goretex jacket (unless its certain to be a nice day in the summer)

But I do alway wear a camelbak

[ezi]

God I'd hate to be carrying all this stuff you lot take..

-Phone
-Earphones
-Emergency £5 note

[Parsnip]

Anything longer than 30 mins - 2 tubes, 3 CO2's, tyre lever, puncture patches, powerlink, £5-10 and whatever food i'm eating goes in the jersey.

[Gazzab]

ezi said:

God I'd hate to be carrying all this stuff you lot take..

-Phone
-Earphones
-Emergency £5 note

Earphones? What are they for ? Are these to blank out the noise of traffic around you so you can get run over in a suprised fashion?

[ezi]

Gazzab said:

ezi said:

God I'd hate to be carrying all this stuff you lot take..

-Phone
-Earphones
-Emergency £5 note

Earphones? What are they for ? Are these to blank out the noise of traffic around you so you can get run over in a suprised fashion?

Can't say I've seen many cars driving round my local forest

Edited by ezi on Tuesday 10th November 11:23

[Gazzab]

Oh ok - I still wouldnt wear them, just seems like a safety risk. The number of times I have heard animals, horses etc before I came round a bend in a forest.....with headphones on I wouldnt have braked as early. Also wont hear off road bikes coming if headphones are worn, nor will I hear other riders.