Saddlebag vs jersey pocket

mcowan77

Prob already been debated to death but what's the general opinion?

On my commute is dosnt matter as I have a rucksack but out with the club with the good bike?

Cheers

Cleat Eastwood

Depends what you're putting in them - food in pocket - sometimes tools and tubes in pocket other wise tools and tubes in saddle bag.

chrisaonabike

I hate being able to feel anything sticking into my back. So the only thing I carry in the JP is my food (flapjack, flattened into two layers), my phone and my keys.

When I do my first long sportive, and take four times as much food, a pump and two more tubes than I normally carry, if that means I need a seat pack as big as a whale and a tri bag as well, so be it.

goonz

Both, food and keys wallet phone, pump in jersey and tools and gilet in saddle bag.

lc1981

Currently, I'm using a bidon in my second bottle cage to carry all this. I don't know what I'm going to do when it gets hot, because I don't want to go back to using a saddlebag, which I did last year.

MattC59

lc1981 wrote:

a bidon in my second bottle cage

Brilliant........

cyclingsheep

Tubes, CO2 canisters and tools in saddle bag, food, phone, keys, gillet or light rain coat and pump in jersey. I'm afraid I don't have a support car following me on all my rides so try to take what I might need to get me home

jameses

Saddle bag - tube, patches, CO2 pump, multi tool, tyre levers
Jersey - mobile, keys, food, OS map if venturing into unfamiliar territory.

I hate the feeling of overloaded jersey pockets pulling the back of my jersey down!

snoopsmydogg

Only a small saddle bag so repair kit, tools and keys.

Jersey for pump, phone, food and jacket if I take it.

Gizmodo

Saddle bag - CO2, 2 spare tubes, tire levers, multi tool, tire boot, £10 note and ID - all the stuff that is the same every ride and can be switched between bikes if necessary.

Pockets - mobile, food, keys, rain jacket if needed - everything that can't stay on the bike week in week out.

Wacky Racer

Phone, door key and food in jersey pockets. Everything else squeezed into the Lezyne Micro Caddy.

cyclingsheep

Gizmodo wrote:

Saddle bag - CO2, 2 spare tubes, tire levers, multi tool, tire boot, £10 note and ID - all the stuff that is the same every ride and can be switched between bikes if necessary.

Pockets - mobile, food, keys, rain jacket if needed - everything that can't stay on the bike week in week out.

+1

Mikey23

+2,

mcowan77

Cheers ill go with the advice for both

sloppyschleckonds

Camelbak

Gizmodo

SloppySchleckonds wrote:

Camelbak

On a road club ride :shock: be prepared for some stick if you do!

upperoilcan

Money,Phone,Mini pump,Innertube,Tyre levers,Keys all go into my jersey pockets.

jamiemilbourn

I was a saddle bag kind of guy - 2 tubes, levers, CO2 +spare, multi-tool, phone, keys and a tenner.

Yesterday I did my first sportive without the bag, Surrey Cyclone, and managed to fit all of the above in plus 3 gels, a pack of chewits and some shot bloks. (way overdid it on the fuel aspect).

Generally have phone, keys, money in the center, 1 tube, Co2 in the left pocket and the rest in the right pocket.

I quite like the fact it weighs my jersey down as it stopped it riding up!

Horses for courses i spose.

alihisgreat

Plenty of room in my jersey pockets... could easily get my kit more compact too if I needed to.

and sometimes I take a second tube in a continental 'tube bag' which looks like this:


or this

FatTed

Gizmodo wrote:

Saddle bag - CO2, 2 spare tubes, tire levers, multi tool, tire boot,- all the stuff that is the same every ride and can be switched between bikes if necessary.

Pockets - mobile, food, keys, rain jacket if needed - everything that can't stay on the bike week in week out.

As above + I have a rain jacket in my saddle bag.

dnwhite88

Funny a lot of people here with saddle bags still put their keys in their jerseys. I did that til I had an off-they're a bastard to land on!

differentstrokes87

I've been using a Bidon lately too.

Enough room for a tube, pump, co2, multitool, patches.

philwint

Jersey - stuff I will almost certainly want to get at: Small lock, phone, money, food, arm warmers/gillet/waterproof

Saddle bag - stuff i hope not to need: tube, multi tool, patches, emergency front/rear light

thegreatdivide

Badly designed pockets will sag and generally feel cr4p when you’re hunched over on the bike. Get out the saddle and they’ll be swinging and jangling away. Well designed, deep, strong pockets hold everything together neatly and with minimal sag. I had this in the back on my jersey on Saturday and didn’t feel uncomfortable in the slightest...

Left pocket:
2 x energy bars, inhaler, lip balm, a couple of tissues, can of Pit Stop

Centre pocket:
Rapha Essentials case containing spare tubular (Tufo 160), Club ID, BC ID, a couple of tiny Allen keys, house key
Mobile in plastic bag

Right pocket:
1 x Cliff bar
2 x Clif Bloks
Co2 head
Co2 canister

beams87

http://www.velominati.com/accessories-a ... -rules-29/

thegreatdivide

beams87 wrote:

http://www.velominati.com/accessories-and-gear/breaking-the-rules-29/

Not following the Rules are the new Rules.

beams87

Rule -1 I presume. How silly of me

FlacVest

Left pocket: 2 tubes
Middle pocket: Food
Middle zip (on top of middle) CC/ID Phone Keys
Right pocket: previously 3CO2 + nossile. Now empty, so more food. I got an xlab that can hold CO2/Nossile and more water, so I'm set for long rides with no support.

You don't pay all that money to throw an extra 2 lbs under the saddle do you?