Things you wish you’d packed

Managed to get out on a ride today, 3 hour drive to the brecons, 6 miles into the gap ride and boom front tyre instantly deflates.

1 in a million thing, stick into gap by valve core rotates round and shears the valve off!

never had it before, but at that moment i realised I didn’t have a spare – just a tube.

After fighting the cushcore out the front wheel, fitting the tube and pumping it up (which didn’t look like that was working)  the second realisation hit. No puncture kit!

Then started thinking I could make a ghetto tubeless strip and the third realisation hit – nothing sharp to slice the tube up!!!

Still made it round albeit a bit gingerly in places. All now added into going to far away places kit.

what is it you wish you’d packed after the inevitable mishap?

i realised I didn’t have a spare – just a tube.

A spare what?

No puncture kit!

Why would you need a puncture kit if you’ve just fitted a tube?

Spare tubeless valve

puncture kit in case a) I pick up another puncture by thorn or pinch flat

and b) in case the tyre already had a load of old thorns in it.

wasn’t very well written I agree

I carry

1 Tubeless repair worms

2 Spare tube/s

3 Puncture repair kit for spare tube, and

4 spare valve core and removal tool.

This ensures I never get punctures. I did once snap a valve stem off entirely so I’m gong to check I have one in the spares pouch.

/edit

5 spare tubeless stem present and correct.