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Found a photo of my touring toolkit from Alice trip last year. Pedal is because I removed it to fit bike in box, not because I carry a spare. Mirror ditto. But chain joining links, two puncture kits, 15mm spanner cut down, 10mm spanner, spare QRs because I've seen too many bend or break, and also in case I have to put my bike into a shop (remove pitlocks, insert normal QRS... or shop will ring and complain). Pitlock is likewise removed only for packing bike.

Also, proper allen keys because assembling a bike with a multitool sucks.

Nio spare tubes? No pump? No chain tool? Spare spokes? spoke key?

wait - jetblack are the spare tubes ?

nah, putting tubes in with greasy tools and chain lube is asking for trouble. Chainbreak is in photo. Spoke key not necessary with 406 wheels, in my experience.

By the time you've broken spokes you've normally also destroyed the rim or hub. I rode about 10,000km with a broken spoke in my front wheel once because I couldn't be bothered fixing it. Eventually another one broke so I respoked the wheel. Hub dyno, disk brakes, 406 wheel with 36 spokes... not easy to damage it

I see it now - is that a crank puller above the chain tool?

whats the black plastick thing between the QRs, the hex drivers, and teh half-a-15mm spanner ?

I think this should be a thing

a community wiki - what's your EDC on the bike ?

@PeteH take my said with a grain of humour! This is pretty obvious that all the mentioned things are just another incarnation of populism. Yet this is interesting how Tokyo cities fight for citizens - they make new and new liberal populistic laws to attract more taxpayers. So far my city has population density of 14679 people per square km which means the city government is doing their job in attracting, I am only wondering where do they all live here...

@Criggie spare brake pads. I figured one set for two bikes and only about 1000km of riding would be ok

but no tubes? I found punctures were the single most common ride-stopper.

I wonder if anyone's tried a bike on those military airless tyres that were super "next thing" a decade ago.

An everyday carry wiki would be interesting

(to me at least)

mine's gilet, hat, mini pump, tube, multitool and maybe leatherman, sticky patches, master link, presta/shrader converter, levers, flapjack or ricecake, phone, money

can get out of most jams with that

oh, and if it's been a long week, I might throw in some zinc oxide tape

@alex Whats that for ?

sore spots on feet or hands

a hang over from when I climbed a lot

with some zinc tape and super glue, I'm a one man first aid kit

:)

heh okay

I rarely use it

but it's good to have

Some of those things are used rarely but they're the only tool for the job.

OK - its a bit fiddly but I think thats a great idea

get a photo of it all laid out by your bike and I'll do the question in a couple days.

deal

I like to see what other people carry, make sure I've not looked over anything obvious

oh, zip ties

and brake pads for my mountain bike

(since I lost the rear ones at 4000m the other week)

god, there's a lot of stuff you can cary if you feel like it

my every day carry is much smaller, and most of it isn't in that photo coz it wasn't packed away in the toolkit. Commuting/round town I just carry patch kit, pump, multitool and skeletool. That lets me fix most things, and the multitool has a crappy chain tool on it which is strictly desperation time.

The pocket photo the other day shows most iof it

yeah - noddling around town is a lot less gear than an extended ride in the countryside.

@alex zip ties are a great thing to carry

have gotten me out of a hole a couple of times

if I'm commuting then I'll have a pump in my bag but will stick it in a rear pocket on a long spin

@ynnekkram I used to have co2 stuff until the time I managed to break the actual pump whilst out on the road. After that I went back to having a pump.

I always carry 1-2 tubes, a tiny pump, tiger balm against insect bites, vaseline, tiny screwdriver for the RD and levers... so far it was enough. Well, money or something of that sort of course, too.

once riding in Hokkaido the tiger balm proved to be extremely useful. There were those tiny Siberian flies who bite as soon as they land on you and there were clouds of them. They do not bite if you ride but seems like they always follow.

I only take CO2 when I have a deadline of some kind

read have to be back because of children stuff

faffing with a mini pump and riding back on soft tires isn't fun when you only have an hour or two to start with

I try to ride fast enough that insects can't catch me.

with your mouth shut?

I did a rail trail once, that went through a marsh

Swear i swallowed dozens to hundreds of gnats.

Stupid things were hovering in big clouds over the trail.

Who puts Tiger Blam in their mouth?

Missus Tiger ?

Time for me to Susexit.

My preworkout stuff is kicking in and I'll be vibrating soon if I don't go ride :)

dude - lay off the EPO

:-P

Nah. That stuff will give you a stroke. I want to die of a massive MI. cellucor.com/c4

This season is being weird. Everytime I have a ride that feels slow and garbagey, I find out it's a new season best. Makes no sense to me.