On May 30, 7:53 am, Andre Jute <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What do you carry, and why?
>
At present I never ride too far without my (big) Pedros Messenger bag
on my back. Inside that:
- Park PPM1 Mini Tool Kit bundled in a nifty neoprene holder contains
(OTTOMH):
Two (2) plastic tire levers
Small open-ended wrench
Small combo screwdriver/box-end/allen wrench
Three-way spoke wrench
Small but strong-looking chain breaker tool
Park glueless patches (work great!)
Emergency tire boot
- Park folding allen set with many bit sizes
- Topeak Road Morph compact tire pump (awesome!)
- Small patch kit that somebody just gave me on the road one day
- Two tubes (for 28 and 23mm)
- Disposable gloves (medical type) for working on greasy parts
- A couple flat plastic produce bags with paper shop towels inside
(cleanup and carry away grimy stuff)
- Small waterproof lithium cell powered flashlight
- Another pair of plastic tire levers (Pedros), ('cause I already had
them before getting the PPM1)
- some zip-ties and a piece of old innertube (no bailing wire or duct
tape, though
On my person I usually carry wristwatch, ball-point pen (tools, not
jewelry), and Swiss Army knife "Tinker".
There's probably some stuff missing from the bag that ought to be
there, and surely some superfluous, but I imagine I'll rectify that as
things break and I learn the hard way. The thing about my messenger
bag is that it really seems to need *something* in it to make it ride
right, so what the heck - it might as well include tools, eh?
(So
there, Murphy.) It's not as if the cumulative mass and bulk of my
bike/person could benefit much from losing that extra pair of tire
levers.
I probably will want to consider other bag and rack arrangements as
summer heats up, though. My back is getting sweaty enough every day
already). The messenger bag is pretty neat, though, what with its
capacity and versatility.