[Closed] Carrying spare tubes etc...

You see plenty of people out at trail centres who choose to carry nothing for the sake of being unencumbered, but I've never understood this myself as even a modest place can be > 1 hour's walk back to the car which for the sake of a tube taped to the saddle and tools the size of a pack of playing cards in the back pocket, seems a little...errr, surprising to me.

Each to their own, I suppose.

I often find myself lending/giving away tubes etc.

If a mate made a habit of being supported by me I would let them walk a couple of times if it wasn't that far back to the car and it wasn't dark, wet or horrible out.

if he's a mate, then offer to 'lend' him a tube, in exchange for the returnable deposit of his shorts.