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For sub-2 hour rides from home I just carry a Dynaplug air with a few plugs and 2 CO2 carts now, it comes with a little hose that can be used to top the tyres up the the valve if needed. I use Finish Line sealant which doesn't mind C02, neither does the Muc-Off or milKit stuff if memory serves.
For bike packing or 'middle of nowhere' rides I carry a mega pill, a proper pump and I have a milkit booster with the new black booster head (the recalled ones had blue heads).
I use it as a reserve 600ml water bottle in one if my bottle cages with the drinking cap on it and then carry the booster head in my frame bag. It weighs next to nothing.
It's worked at home many a time but only had to use it 'in the field' once, on an overnighter in the New Forest where we met a chap on a Giant who'd punctured and rolled his tyre, stuck a plug in the tyre, decanted the water into my main bottle, put on the booster head, pumped it up and 'WHOMP' the tyre was back on.
Rode off feeling more than a little smug.
Trailwagger, if you want minimum fuss whilst out, you should definitely be taking some worms! You can get a puncture big enough to spray a cloud of sealant, put your finger on the tyre whilst you get an inserter preinstalled with a worm, slap some vulcanising solution on it, and then plug the tyre. If you catch it quick, you don't even need to add any air to the tyre!
A tube is the last resort full faffage and in my experience you can still have trouble seating the bead to avoid a buckled tyre.
In a similar vein, Mattvanders... wouldn't it be better to take the pump and worms on local rides, and take the valves, sealant and CO2 on the big rides where it might be worth the effort of getting a tubeless setup reseated rather than just popping a tube in?
the most important thing is to check the shop put enough sealant in as its your primary defense. i carry a tubeless repair kit (stans), pump and spare tube. tubeless shouldnt be viewed as an alternative to tubes, its a performance gain, but if it fails you may still need a tube to get you home.
Dynaplug racer fits nicely in a hollow crank with a bit of foam wrapped round it 🙂
Good thread, thanks for all the info. Does running tyre inserts make much of a difference to what people carry? You would need to remove the insert to fit a tube right? Or could you just about ride home just on the insert?
Any thoughts on the above? Thanks
Spook - hardtail is the local bike with an insert and using a bum bag & water bottles, full sus is the big day out running a back pack and frame bag. You may be right for the worms but view it that I would rather could ride home on the insert if it came to it rather than take it out so tube is only for the front.
Depending on what insert I would say, I have a rim impact and it fills over half the tyre, smaller ones I wouldn’t.