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moonangel12

NorthCascades wrote: »

moonangel12 wrote: »

mjbnj0001 wrote: »

NorthCascades wrote: »

moonangel12 wrote: »

Bummer!! How much of a hike did you have??

One day while walking with friends we passed a guy messing with a flat tire. An hour and a half later we came back to him finally admitting defeat (patched one hole, still leaking, never could find it). Offered him a ride, he was quick to accept. He had another 8.5 miles back to his car. (Local path that has small parking lots every couple miles, he was just coming up on where we parked).

I went from “hey, I need to put together a small repair kit” to now hauling a pretty thorough supply bag with TWO extra tubes, just in case

About six miles, in carbon fiber shoes and cleats that need to be replaced after so much abuse. Mostly on the side of a rural highway. I was riding a gravel trail, got a pinch flat, and it looks like a blackberry thorn found its way into the tire while I was changing tubes, so the replacement popped right away too. If I had had a third tube, I would have learned from the second one, used extra care, and been ok.

being a big guy, i got a bunch of pinch flats back in the day on my road touring bike. i learned to carry both spare tube and patch kits. flash forward to today (riding a hardtail both onroad and offroad): since i'm riding 29x2.35 tires, my tubes are pretty big. i therefore follow the same carry protocol as years ago - spare tube plus patches, except now i carry adhesive patches, not a tube of glue (yes, i know the latter is better than the former, but i'm mainly interested in "get me home" repairs). being redundant minded, i also carry a small frame pump and co2.

@moonangel12 pic below is my saddle bag repair items contents. blue case is from eddie bauer and is a hardshell sunglasses case useful to stuff all the small bits to keep them from rattling around. not shown: my spare tube (lives in a small handlebar bag because of it's size), a length of duct tape wrapped around an old hotel card key, and small leatherman "squirt" (lives in my handlebar bag), which has a pair of needlenosed pliers to pull things out of the tire rubber if needed. Main bike multitool is a Blackburn Wayside. The odd black thing at right is a checkout-line-impulse-buy item from Canadian Tire - tire patch kit with tire levers (redundancy again). Why 2 different sized co2? well, one doesn't suffice to inflate my tires, and two of the large is too much. plus, when my wife rides with me, i've got a canister for her tire size if needed. Also not shown are vinyl gloves (which I carried even before COVID), in my first aid kit, which are useful for keeping your hands clean from grease when doing trailside chain repairs.

Another reason I carry patches is to give them to someone in need - while I ride generally solo, I also don't expect to find many people with my tire size in roadside/trailside need - but a patch can be useful.

Thanks so much for the detailed rundown! I bought a bag that goes under the top bar of my frame. It has a patch kit and tire levers, compact bike multi tool, pocket knife (although I am thinking leather man is a much better plan thanks to your post!), two tubes, I have a two way hand bump mounted on the frame (not co2, but I downsized tires so it would be effort, but not a huge endeavor like yours!). Trying to think what else. Bandaids, mini Clif bar. Maybe mace?

A pair of nitrile gloves.

Definitely something I am going to add!

MichelleMcKeeRN

Slime in my bike tires is the best thing I have spent money on in a long time!

pridesabtch

That truly sucks! The furthest I've had to walk is a mile an a half.

Though I was once about 30 miles from home and 15 miles from my destination when I got my 3rd flat... Road debris was awful that day. I just called my husband to come get me with extra supplies. We were planning to meet at the destination and ride as a family. I was not in a good mood, but the ride with the kids and hubby perked me up.

mjbnj0001

ccrdragon wrote: »

This is a great set-up and pretty much mirrors what I carry - the only thing that I have that you don't is a 3" piece of a metal clothes hanger that I have bent on the ends for hooks. It makes a great holder to keep the chain in 1 place when you have to remove/replace a link (you hook each end on either side of the break and then you can work on the chain without either pulling it off the gears or trying to hold the chain with 1 hand. Basically it's this thing - https://www.amazon.com/Wakauto-Chain-Stainless-Repair-Bicycle/dp/B07YHCCLMM/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=bike+chain+hook&qid=1597784899&sr=8-5 - for the price of a wire hanger.

Doesn't happen too often, but I have popped a chain on a ride and I was glad I had this.

thanks! one of the reasons i chose the blackburn wayside tool was it has a chain hook in it. along with 11-speed chain tool (the trek x-caliber is a 2x11). Thanks for the link above.

mjbnj0001

NorthCascades wrote: »

... Thanks so much for the detailed rundown! I bought a bag that goes under the top bar of my frame. It has a patch kit and tire levers, compact bike multi tool, pocket knife (although I am thinking leather man is a much better plan thanks to your post!), two tubes, I have a two way hand bump mounted on the frame (not co2, but I downsized tires so it would be effort, but not a huge endeavor like yours!). Trying to think what else. Bandaids, mini Clif bar. Maybe mace?


A pair of nitrile gloves.

@moonangel12 @NorthCascades even before covid, i carried a pair or two of gloves with my first aid kit as ppe, which were also redundant for handling a chain while out on the trail ("grease monkey" wipes are also good for cleaning grease off your hands). while most of my rides are solo, i do some trail-oriented volunteering out here, and also carry a keychain cpr mask along with dispensable band-aids of several sizes. for my own first aid, i carry a small kit, which i call my "cuts kit," focused on handling small traumas and some personal meds; it's about 2-3x the size of a makeup compact case. the leatherman squirt has small needlenosed pliers, scissors and a blade useful for first-aid situations (redundancy is a theme, can you tell? follows the old maxim on spares: "two is one, one is none"). first aid is a whole 'nother discussion.

it sounds as if i am hauling around a lot of stuff, and maybe i am, but it is generally not a lot of weight, and given the pounds i have lost cycling, i can mentally accommodate the few ounces here and there. but covid has raised the stakes; i am working on getting a permanent rear rack and trunk bag/pannier system so that i can have functional/physical separation between "my stuff" and say, things acquired on errands (for which i need to place into virus-dissipation isolation upon return to home).

pic is one of my std "volunteering" configurations, where i am carrying park/trail literature, spares, basic personal and shareable first aid, etc. - it get stashed away pretty well. unfortunately for me, the volunteer gig is suspended for covid reasons this year.

mjbnj0001

moonangel12 wrote: »

Thanks so much for the detailed rundown! I bought a bag that goes under the top bar of my frame. It has a patch kit and tire levers, compact bike multi tool, pocket knife (although I am thinking leather man is a much better plan thanks to your post!), two tubes, I have a two way hand bump mounted on the frame (not co2, but I downsized tires so it would be effort, but not a huge endeavor like yours!). Trying to think what else. Bandaids, mini Clif bar. Maybe mace?

I was off bikes for several decades, but in the 1980s/90s, I was riding a Fuji Touring Series IV and doing inn-to-inn and other "destination" riding. A good amount of riding, but nothing too far out in the boonies.

In those days, this sufficed as my multitool, plus a Zefal frame pump, spare tube, patches and tire irons. And money for a payphone if needed, LOL. those were simpler days.

This might have been good enough for MacGyver, LOL. Note the "universal" wrench tool and velocipede logo. Of course, the corkscrew was vital equipment a couple of times ...

NorthCascades

MichelleMcKeeRN wrote: »

Slime in my bike tires is the best thing I have spent money on in a long time!

My other wheels are set up tubeless, that would have saved my bacon. You just can't get pinch flats without an inner tube. But I'd heard there was deep gravel, and didn't want to bring carbon rims. Ironically, they would have been just fine. 😐

BrianSharpe

Sounds like it's time to go tubeless!