[Closed] Bags are gay

Back pocket on your cycling top??

Tubeless.

I still carry a tube and a pump when tubless!

Stick the pump up yer bum? Or train to be a sword swallower.

you seem a little insecure, no?

In the pocket of your £80 replica knitted obscure European road team from the 70's jersey, of course.

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crank bros mini pump, tube and a small multi tool fit fine in a back pocket

Get one of those tiny lezyne pumps and carry it, along with a compact puncture repair kit, in your pocket.

I like my bike to look asthetically pleasing

Why it's a got a Speedhub

FAIL.

Speedhubs are fugly.

I don't want to wear a rucksack, I ain't going on a camping trip.

I wear a rucksack and I suffer from this misconception all the time. People have even been known to run after me carrying airbeds and tents, shouting "please can we come with you?".

Although what do you carry your hydration in? If you don't have a camelbak then surely you're using bottles, in which case you could have a bottle boss mounted pump without too much fuss as bottles in the frame look abhorrent anyway.

crank bros mini pump, tube and a small multi tool fit fine in a back pocket

Exactly what i've got, plus a few extra links of sram pc7x chain just incase!

"supercute" and "bags are gay"?

go tubeless, pumpless AND commando.

Get one of these!!!

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bike to look asthetically pleasing

And yet your concerned about looking gay?

FFS - pump on a frame clip - mulitool and tube in a tiny seat pouch.

its what works that counts

Strap it to your seatpost if youre tall enough. Can put the pump against it, then wrap the tube around it. Then when you change inner tube, just wrap the pump and seatpost in the old one.

[i]I don't want to wear a rucksack, I ain't going on a camping trip[/i]

Me neither. I'm wearing a Camelbak to go mountain biking. (well not at this very moment..)

RudeBoy?

Camelbak. It's not a rucksack, they come in v small svelte versions.

Let us see your bike and we'll be the judge of all this...

So you are more concerned with how you look to others, rather than your performance?

Nothing is right or wrong, its up to you... But as said above, what do you do for hydration on a long ride?

FAIL.

Speedhubs are fugly.

Oh and... This thread is worthless without a pic!

zip-tie the pump to your shin and use the tube as a belt you wally.

I think you'd look great with a bum bag
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Why call it gay? I dont see that [b]blatant homophobia[/b] has any place on the internet, especially when concerned about bicycles.

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I think you're right LB

I was riding my full susser the other day and someone came running up to me waving some money, saying that they needed a pond digging in their back garden. How embarassing when I had to explain that it was one of those new-fangled suspension bicycles.

Everyone knows leather effect bum bags are very macho and not gay, at all, ever.

I was riding my full susser the other day and someone came running up to me waving some money, saying that they needed a pond digging in their back garden. How embarassing when I had to explain that it was one of those new-fangled suspension bicycles.

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troll?

Supercute - are comming out? Brave attempt with this post.

troll?

Reckon so! No replies yet!

All we need now is for someone to post a pic of the village people, not to stereo type homosexuality or anything.

The fact that somebody with a speedhub is talking about aesthetics is possibly the most entertaining thing I've read in days...

CO2 cartridge and tube in jersey pocket, would be teh easiest thing...

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The temptation was too much

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Speedhub, aesthetics - same sentence, hmmmmmmm. Troll? Nevertheless I stick tube/CO2/wee pump and tools in my jersey pockets.

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Looks like a fairly tall chap from the pic. I can see why he wants a fix for his pump/tube problem. I'm a big fan of gaffa tape, but this application is not terribly practical.

Stick pump, tube and multitool in jersey pockets, Supercute. Go ride. Try not to be too homophobic while you do it, too.

[i]Oh, and if you're concerned about aesthetics, I'd get a slightly less fugly lid, too.[/i]

I quite liked your gaffa tape solution, suitably utilitarian....just need white gaffa tape to match the frame..

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Supercute - Member

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Here is my Sanderson Soloist with Speedhub (36-16) It gets sweeter with every mile.

Yes, like what youre already doing now, but without the duck tape.

Wombat: with those carpet tiles? I don't think so, girlfriend. :hand:

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www.myspace.com/gianthomo
WTF?

Not mine tinsy, you know I'd never have flats or a silly bmx helmet.

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sorry, the posts were coming in fast I missed it... still looks a numangler.

i get a boy to bring my pump from the rear, he's a little chap but has plenty of puff-no bags necessary, wunderbar!

I think it's sad some people missinterpret the - apparently pejorative -use of the word 'gay' with some sort of underliying homophobia. It's not. If anything - it's the complete opposite. I think it's reflective of society's overall comfortableness now and general acceptance of all things gay - that 'gay' can become part of the cultural adjective lexicon. Describing something as 'gay' in this instance is simply pointing to more of an affectation or quality within it. It's not homophobia. For example, because of my inherent XC jayboy-ness, my riding on really steep rocky scary steppy stuff is positively 'gay' and I'm happy to admit that. 😉

Supercute - that Sanderson soloist is sick to the power of rad, man! Go for a Crank Bros minipump - it'll solve all your problems and they're a totally sick bit of kit too.. 😉

don't bother with a pump or mini tool... go hard core, and if something does happen.
well, at least you have a nice looking bike to push back to the car/home

I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder... I'm glad I'm not the beholder of that bike...

Homophobic? Get over yourselfs you boring bunch of politically correct fun policing knobjockeys.

Oh, and Supercute- Seatpacks are a sign of someone not knowing what they're doing and are appaling things. Get a camelbak. This one's cool.

I think it's sad some people missinterpret the - apparently pejorative -use of the word 'gay' with some sort of underliying homophobia. It's not. If anything - it's the complete opposite. I think it's reflective of society's overall comfortableness now and general acceptance of all things gay - that 'gay' can become part of the cultural adjective lexicon. Describing something as 'gay' in this instance is simply pointing to more of an affectation or quality within it. It's not homophobia.

What utter bollox.

Your bike has a seatpost. You can stick all sorts of things up there, eg one of those ultralight pumps, and use a plug to stop them falling out. Also the inside of your handlebars is a good place to carry a puncture repair outfit.

Have you thought of fitting a basket?

No_eyed_dear, I think you're completely right to compare your timid style of riding to a gay person. Because that's what gay people are: timid, effiminate, a bit useless generally. I'd hire one to decorate my house but that's about it.

But I'm glad that this chap thinks the aesthetic pinnacle of the bicycle is a meh Taiwanese frame with shifter cables that could snare Vanessa Feltz.