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My son's ashes is the absolute minimum (usually when I am riding with others so I can sponge off them).
Otherwise it depends. Local, a small bumbag with money and mobile, multi tool, reading glasses, puncture stuff and flapjack, a small lock and at this time of year a pair of secateurs and a pruning saw.Big or far rides I will add first aid stuff, extra clothing, drinks, (I normally just have a good drink before I go with the option of buying something if needed and rehydrating on my return)food.
Trailbike
Oneup EDC in the head tube. (multitool, chain breaker, quick links, worms, valve core remover and valve although its now on fillmore valves so those can come out). Thats the minimum. Plus a water bottle. Any ride worth getting on a bike for, I'll drink at least half a bottle even in the depths of winter. Oddly, I can make a single bottle last a long time in summer when needed.
Usually I'll add one means of tyre inflation. current choice is a CO2. A puncture when solo, I'll probably head home after fixing.
Longer ride. Either a decent pump or 2 redundant means of tyre inflation - although in a group, its good to have people with differing things. If someone needs inflation, you can choose from the most suitable tool in the group's possession.
Somewhere very rocky with potential for a very long walk, I'll add an emergency tube taped to the frame.
New XC bike.
Curently an old crank bros multitool in the frame bag. Need to get a one up for this too.
I'll go to great lengths to avoid anything on my person besides phone and a single key (car or house).
Big long list for what’s in the bum bag… but bare-minimum for little local rides…
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I never bother with puncture stuff any more partly because I rarely get them with tubeless but mainly because my thumbs are too old and weak for tubeless sidewalls
café lock of some kind so if it all goes ****-up you can lock the bike and get a taxi home then come back in the car.
Digs out and old pair of scissors and makes a mental note to keep an eye on Strava for next time Jules' ride is cut short....
I carry a one-up component EDC pump which has chain breaker, multi-tool, quick link, bacon strips and a stabber as well as a pump obviously
cycling wallet, which has valve stems, money, presta to Schrader adapter, di2 charging adapter, puncture repair kit, tyre lever and a spare tube.
That fits in two pockets on my back leaving the center pocket for food. And honestly more food can be packed in around the one-up components pump
Electric pump, multi tool some chain links random assortment of patches/tubeless repair stuff which may or may not be suitable for the bike I am riding
£5 note. Phone. Tube and tyre levers, pump, bacon strips and file/needle-thing, joining link and multi-tool, nylon ties, spoke key, adhesive tape, snack bars.
Little binoculars and secateurs in summer
Locally, nothing. Well, phone is about it. I've got probably 30-40km of trails/goat tracks/double and single track within a 30 minute walk, all of which is useable.
If I'm going a bit further afield, it's just a minitool, CO2, plugs/strips and a tube.
Big day out in the hills, more plugs (really, i just take the same, i used to have two sets, but lost one in the workshop at home!) and an extra CO2 or two. And a couple of quick links.
Haven't been *properly* caught out in ~10 years.
Have had a couple of occasions when the damage was simply too bad to repair. (Snapped brake hose, 10cm split in tyre, broken axle.)
Proper, regular maintenance has been the cure for 99% of the issues i might have had. If i had a tenner for every time i'd stopped to help someone with a mechanical caused by sloppy or non existent maintenance/shoddy workmanship, i'd probably have an extra hundred quid a year.
If i had a tenner for every time i'd stopped to help someone with a mechanical caused by sloppy or non existent maintenance/shoddy workmanship, i'd probably have an extra hundred quid a year.
This is why I carry a fiver, but then I'm a cheapskate 🤣
