What do you carry on rides and how...

chris_bass

SloppySchleckonds wrote:

All you knead is a Rapha leather essentials case with a £50 note inside.

interesting use of knead!?

drlodge

Chris Bass wrote:

SloppySchleckonds wrote:

All you knead is a Rapha leather essentials case with a £50 note inside.

interesting use of knead!?

That Rapha case must be bread and butter equipment.

cougie

When did Allen Keys become Hex keys ? Is this a new thing ?

herb71

Mini pump on the bottle cage mount.

Small saddle bag with tube, patches, levers, multiple tool with chain splitter, spare link, spoke key.

In pockets, asthma inhaler, keys, emergency fiver, phone.

mfin

cougie wrote:

When did Allen Keys become Hex keys ? Is this a new thing ?

I'd guess it's yet another American thing, as against calling a bum-bag/saddle-bag a 'fanny pack' which is an English thing.

homers_double

Saddle bag contains a tube, pump, levers and a multi tool.

Pockets contain food and a phone in a sandwich bag along with a bit of cash for the odd stop. Aldi thin jacket if the weather looks iffy.

ai_1

I'm a little confused as to why so many people carry 2 spare tubes? This seems like massive overkill unless people are getting huge numbers of punctures due to fragile tyres on flint laden roads or horrendous bad luck! I carry one tube and a pack of pre-glued patches. I've only had to repair punctures mid-ride 3 times that I can recall in 3.5 years. Never had repeat punctures on a ride but the patches are there if I do. This is the same logic as using CO2 and a pump. If I'm feeling lazy I can use the CO2 initially. The pump is there in the unlikley event I need to re-inflate multiple times. Anyway, just curious as to the reasoning for 2 tubes?

dsoutar

I ride conti 4000 tyres which are generally considered fairly puncture proof and I've had two on one ride (and I also had 3 once which necessitated a phone home as I didn't have any patches with me)

andrewjoseph

^ because sometimes 'stuff ' happens.

my wife and I got 4 or more punctures in each tyre when riding along lanes that the farmer has trimmed and not cleared. Very grateful for the two inner tubes I habitually carry. Would have been a very long walk back to the car.

drlodge

Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

I've never needed 2 inner tubes, except for the time a mate punctured twice on the same bit of flint :roll:

I used to carry only one, but now carry two + tiptop04 puncture repair kit + self adhesive patches that come with the Topeak Rescue box. You can never be too prepared.

smoggysteve

Ai_1 wrote:

I'm a little confused as to why so many people carry 2 spare tubes? This seems like massive overkill unless people are getting huge numbers of punctures due to fragile tyres on flint laden roads or horrendous bad luck! I carry one tube and a pack of pre-glued patches. I've only had to repair punctures mid-ride 3 times that I can recall in 3.5 years. Never had repeat punctures on a ride but the patches are there if I do. This is the same logic as using CO2 and a pump. If I'm feeling lazy I can use the CO2 initially. The pump is there in the unlikley event I need to re-inflate multiple times. Anyway, just curious as to the reasoning for 2 tubes?

On a group ride a friend went through a broken bottle. POP POP!

2x puncture

That's why.

cougie

I've hit a pothole at speed. Double flat.

Then there was that one freaky ride where we managed 5 flats between 3 of us. On roads that never bothered us before.

Its a rare occurrence - but how small does a tube fold up to ?

Also I've given spares to muppets who went out without any...

ai_1

Fair enough. Incidentally as I hope was apparent, I wasn't criticising anyone, just curious if having 2 was necessary in any but the rarest of circumstances. Apparently those circumstances pop up more often than my experience has led me to believe. Thanks for the replies.

kingstonian

For those of you that carry a small pump in a pocket, which one do you have? I just have CO2 canisters but have thought of taking a pump instead.

smoggysteve

I take both. Pump up by hand as best I can then top up with the CO2 until close to what I guess is my preferred pressure.

Baby Trek

Small saddle bag that I can squeeze an inner tube, levers, iPhone and cash into. My bike pump is a small one that fits neatly next to one of my water bottles next to the cage and then I use my jersey pockets for a rain jacket if needed and/or food.

drlodge

cougie wrote:

Its a rare occurrence - but how small does a tube fold up to ?

Standard inner tube like Conti Race 28 - not that small. But I use expensive (£10) Supersonic tubes that are alot thinner and they roll up quite a bit smaller too, nearly half the size.

ai_1

drlodge wrote:

cougie wrote:

Its a rare occurrence - but how small does a tube fold up to ?

Standard inner tube like Conti Race 28 - not that small. But I use expensive (£10) Supersonic tubes that are alot thinner and they roll up quite a bit smaller too, nearly half the size.

Agreed. I normally use Conti Race 28 and I don't think I'd get 2 of those in my saddlebag along with the multi-tool. Maybe I'll try something lighter and more compact next time...

drlodge

Ai_1 wrote:

drlodge wrote:

cougie wrote:

Its a rare occurrence - but how small does a tube fold up to ?

Standard inner tube like Conti Race 28 - not that small. But I use expensive (£10) Supersonic tubes that are alot thinner and they roll up quite a bit smaller too, nearly half the size.

Agreed. I normally use Conti Race 28 and I don't think I'd get 2 of those in my saddlebag along with the multi-tool. Maybe I'll try something lighter and more compact next time...

I can *just* get 2 of these tubes, and the leyzene pressure drive pump and the rest of the gubbins (tyre levers, repair kit, money, keys, cards, multitool, Co2) in my small Topeak aero saddle bag. 2 of these tubes will go side by side. However it was so much of a faff squeezing it all in I now put the pump on the downtube.

ai_1

drlodge wrote:

Ai_1 wrote:

drlodge wrote:

cougie wrote:

Its a rare occurrence - but how small does a tube fold up to ?

Standard inner tube like Conti Race 28 - not that small. But I use expensive (£10) Supersonic tubes that are alot thinner and they roll up quite a bit smaller too, nearly half the size.

Agreed. I normally use Conti Race 28 and I don't think I'd get 2 of those in my saddlebag along with the multi-tool. Maybe I'll try something lighter and more compact next time...

I can *just* get 2 of these tubes, and the leyzene pressure drive pump and the rest of the gubbins (tyre levers, repair kit, money, keys, cards, multitool, Co2) in my small Topeak aero saddle bag. 2 of these tubes will go side by side. However it was so much of a faff squeezing it all in I now put the pump on the downtube.

I've got my pump on the seat tube alongside the water bottle cage. I have a small Topeak Aero Wedge DX which I think is smaller than the small non-DX Aero Wedge. If I got more compact tubes I might get 2 in but it would be tight and might leave no space for CO2. Not a problem really, I'm pretty happy as I am.

Old_Timer

For the rides close around home its a single tube, and the patches as a back up. The Avenir bag is expandable and its a second tube for longer rides that are a bit away from home. I'm using the Conti Race 700c, 18-25 sized tubes.

Have any of you tried the combination pump and CO2? I've seen a few different models out and thought they would do good mounted as said above, next to a bottle cage.

andrewjoseph

I had a combi pump some time ago, it was useless. I couldn't get a seal to use co2 or to pump up. Wasn't a cheap pump either.

smoggysteve

andrewjoseph wrote:

I had a combi pump some time ago, it was useless. I couldn't get a seal to use co2 or to pump up. Wasn't a cheap pump either.

I prefer 2 separate items. If one breaks the other is useable. Plus if you use a co2 canister on a hybrid it stays there until its empty or its wasting gas. If you were going to use the whole canister anyway why use a pump first?

noodleman

arran77 wrote:

I'd take a couple of tubs, some patches, tyre levers and pump or CO2 as a minimum.

Also phone, debit card and a note of some description.

I sometimes also take a small multi tool with a chain tool plus a link.

As for where to put the stuff I generally prefer the jersey pockets but of you don't like this or a saddle bag how about one of those bottle type container things?

A couple of spare tubs? I have trouble finding the space for one, let alone two plus all the other stuff!

drlodge

I think tubs = tubes, of the inner kind.

arran77

noodleman wrote:

arran77 wrote:

I'd take a couple of tubs, some patches, tyre levers and pump or CO2 as a minimum.

Also phone, debit card and a note of some description.

I sometimes also take a small multi tool with a chain tool plus a link.

As for where to put the stuff I generally prefer the jersey pockets but of you don't like this or a saddle bag how about one of those bottle type container things?

A couple of spare tubs? I have trouble finding the space for one, let alone two plus all the other stuff!

I missed off the 'e' on the end, I meant inner tube not tubular tyre :oops:

il sole

i'm amazed at how much some of you take out. I have always got by with a medium sized topeak saddle bag which I can squeeze in the following:
spare tube
leyzne pump
multitool
tyre levers
a tenner
couple of bars
couple of gels
some nice jelly beans

I keep my phone in my jersey pocket. What I would like though is a way of keeping bars and gels cool, there's nothing worse than a hot 'black cherry yogurt gel' :-(

CHRISNOIR

My set-up never changes.

Left jersey pocket – flapjack, gel, keys.
Middle jersey pocket – multi-tool, mini-pump.
Right jersey pocket – Phone, wallet.

A spare tube and levers fit neatly into a Continental saddle bag which is then cunningly wrapped in a pack-a-mac waterproof which is then all rolled up and put in the bottle cage on the seat tube.

ai_1

CHRISNOIR wrote:

My set-up never changes.

Left jersey pocket – flapjack, gel, keys.
Middle jersey pocket – multi-tool, mini-pump.
Right jersey pocket – Phone, wallet.

A spare tube and levers fit neatly into a Continental saddle bag which is then cunningly wrapped in a pack-a-mac waterproof which is then all rolled up and put in the bottle cage on the seat tube.

Keys and gel in the same pocket has the potential to be messy, especially if you put empties back in the same pocket.
Do I understand correctly that you have a saddle bag but you wrap it up and wedge it into a bottle cage? :shock:
Mind me asking why on earth you'd do that instead of putting it on the saddle?

arran77

Ai_1 wrote:

CHRISNOIR wrote:

My set-up never changes.

Left jersey pocket – flapjack, gel, keys.
Middle jersey pocket – multi-tool, mini-pump.
Right jersey pocket – Phone, wallet.

A spare tube and levers fit neatly into a Continental saddle bag which is then cunningly wrapped in a pack-a-mac waterproof which is then all rolled up and put in the bottle cage on the seat tube.

Keys and gel in the same pocket has the potential to be messy, especially if you put empties back in the same pocket.
Do I understand correctly that you have a saddle bag but you wrap it up and wedge it into a bottle cage? :shock:
Mind me asking why on earth you'd do that instead of putting it on the saddle?

Saddle bags look gay, end of :P