What's in your commuting bag?

Me: pants, socks, inner tube, lunch, usb pen. Keys, wallet, phone, door pass.

This: http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/22036
over 50 items including
Multi-tool + mini multi-tool
Bare Minerals Mini SPF 20 Concealer and Baby Buki mini kabuki brush.
Bare Minerals Lip Liner, Eye Liner, Liner Brush
Clinique Mascara, Mirror Compact
Aveda Lip Glaze
Individual alcohol prep pads
Yaesu VX-8DR HT Radio
Garmin 620 sports watch with heart rate monitor

Flippin ‘ell.

Shirt, trousers, jumper, rapha Raeburn parachute jacket, work mobile, ipad, glasses, fountain pen, anti-histamine.

Two tubes, one pump, one set of tyre levers, one pair of latex gloves

Multitool, cafe lock. Survival blanket (it was spare), waterproof jacket.

Shirt, underwear, keys, money and cards, work mobile.

Enough food to keep a platoon going for a week.

Any work files I’ve taken home.

I use a 20l pannier btw.

Really really important stuff….

tube, pump, levers, multitool, lunch.
locks live at work, as do spare clothes, shoes, towel, etc.
I don’t ride every day

This plus wallet and phone.bagcontents by D0NK[/url], on Flickr

She has a lot of stuff but tbf she packs it all down pretty well, good work.

There’s a strange curiosity about what other people have in their bags.

If anyone wants to take pictures that would be even better. You can even add them here.

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Two tubes, pump, multi-spanner, multi-tool, tube patches. Keys, wallet, phone, lunch.

On Mondays also all my clothes for the week.

For the bike:
1 inner tube
1 pair tyre levers
1 multi tool
1 set patches
1 CO2 cartridge and pump

For me:
shirt
shreddies
socks
keys
phone
wallet
food for dinner time
waterproof
(winter/wet weather) oversocks

Nothing.

two tubes
instant patch kit
Few spare bolts, zip ties, spare jockey wheel (I lost one one day on the ride home and it weighs northing)
co2 inflater
2 co2 canisters
tyre lever
latex gloves
multi tool
piece of groundhseet cut up into various sizes (to patch a ripped sidewall)
emergency chocolate bar

Pump in pocket with a length of gaffa tape round the handle

50 items is a lot to carry!

At the moment:

A tube with a hole in (thanks for reminding me)
multi tool
tyre leavers
patch kit
pump
rear light
change
inhaler
work ID card
garmin computer
canister of torq powder
receipt for a hotel I stayed in in April
receipt for a bike I bought a year ago
comb
box of anadin
a card giving 1 month access to pluralsight training
a wind/waterproof gillet

If was actually going to the office today there would also be:

shirt
socks
pants
lunch
phone
wallet

She has a lot of stuff but tbf she packs it all down pretty well, good work.

She has to carry it on her back at times – logic to me would be to have a good purge and make the damn bag lighter!

what’s an “Individual alcohol prep pads”
Is that like going of a curry before a night out?

I just take tube, lever, multi-tool, phone, shirt, underwear and my wallet need a smaller bag really.

tools
tube
patches
tyre levers
pump

shoes
socks
trousers
undies
bra
shirt

hair brush
shower gel
towel

Inner tube
Patches
Tyre levers x2
Multitool
Pump
Lock
Clip on rear light

Shirt
Trousers
Underwear
Hair brush
Wet wipes
Anti-perspirant

ID badge
3 pens
Purse
House keys

2 Tubes
1 tyre lever (will be 2 when I find the missing one)
1 self adhesive patch
mountain morph pump
gel & cereal bar
zip lock bag of wipe/steri strips/sticky plaster/tissues (always in my osprey due to multi use between commuting, mountain biking & family cycles (steri strips now added due to 7 year old over the handlebars!)
probably a survival foil blanket in there too
keys
lunch
2 phones
security pass
wallet
+ big Smile

Have lock/clothes/towel etc at work replenished weekly when in the motor

Normally all in an Ortlieb back roller:
Small Camelback: tools/innertubes/danger cash
Plastic bag 1: Wallet, glasses, headphones.
Plastic bag 2: Packed lunch
Plastic bag 3: Shirt, undercrackers and socks
Plastic bag 4: D Lock + spare lights.
Waterproof Bontrager jacket.

Maybe I carry a little too much. Maybe the camelback needs changing for a plaggy bag to be consistent.

Tonight I have an extra back roller to carry 1 bottle of MacAllan Gold and several pork pies for Whiskey club. Nom nom slurp 😀 .

Shoes, Hawaiian shirt, bar blade, lighter, food.

15mm spanner, 4mm allen key, tube with no pump, swiss army knife (2 blades and corkscrew), loose change, CPR mask, bandage.

I tend to leave food, supplies, clothes and locks at office to minimise what I need to carry, so at the moment my bag just contains:

Fresh grundies and socks. (t-shirt, jeans + shoes left at office)
Endura Helium jacket (in case of rain)
Cateye light and spare batteries (not dark this time of year, but it might be foggy)
Tyre levers
Lezyne Tech Drive HP pump
One spare tube
Park Tool Super patches (in case of two punctures or to help out others)
An old skool Alien multitool with chain tool on it
Emergency tenner
Couple of SRAM PowerLock links (in case of broken chain)
Phone (usually running Endomondo to record route)
Asthma inhaler (wheeeze!)
Few zip ties and bit of bodge tape

Phone
Wallet
Rain cape
Pen
Ski lock
Dry bag
Camera
Lipstick

Do any of you need to take shirts to work everyday, as i have said before i work in aldi and work hard (not say you dont) but with this territory comes a bit of perspiration i get 1 day out of a shirt even if its cold due to the nature of supermarkets, food spills cleaning products etc.

I always find my shirt a bit creased and looking a bit rubbish by the time I get there.

Saddle pack
Tube, two levers, chainsplitter and links, 4mm,5mm and 6mm hex keys, CO2 cartridge, ready glued patches.

Drawstring pumpbag type thing from Wiggle
Pants, phone, wallet, keys, ID/doorswipe card, tube of High 5 zeros, E-cig, juice and charger, codeine, ibuprofen and paracetamol, keys, clean work shirt, day supply of fresh ground coffee, Montane Velo, bagged portion of oats/salt/sweetener and a banana. Oh, and there’s a used CO2 cartridge in there, and I’ve just found a crumpled cigarillo in the bottom.

Old camelbak with:
Shirt & underwear.
Tube
Gas can
Spare pump
Multi tool
Chain links
Gear cable
Wallet
Waterproof
Small lock, just in case I want to stop on the way home at the butchers etc.

Other stuff would be office keys, and security pass, my phone, work phone, work iPad.

what good timing this post is….
i’m taking a month off from any riding due to Ramadan so last night i went through my camelback to see what was in it…
this is what i found

along with a small bag containing…

on top of all this i have my shirt, underwear and socks (rest of the stuff stays at work), my office keys and works ID, house keys, work USB stick, phone charger/USB cable, wallet, bottle of water/juice and food

why i carry all this crap around, i dont know, especially seeing as i dont need most of it for a 7 mile commute…i think its time for a bit of a clearout

Pump
Patch kit
Tube
Multitool
Keys
Phone

Blimey gonzy! A bit of redundancy going on there eh?
6 tyre levers? 3 packs of patches? 2 multi-tools + 2 sets of Allen keys? 😯

Nothing bike related:

Greek salad (going in) empty plasic box (going home)
ginger cake
pens/pencils
phone/wallet/keys/laptop dongle doda
Paramo gillet (love that)
spork
jumble of change and crumbs
various bits of paper, letters,
cap
glasses.

Now that’s a lot of gear Gonzy.
A few observations:
I have that little spanner/bottle opener, mbuk freebie was it?
Good job you carry a shock pump coz when that blackburn one fails you’ll need it and TBF it probably shifts the same volume as my spare pump (microrocket*) 😉
How many levers?
Posh dust caps on your spare tubes?

Can you come riding with us? Looks like I’d never have to bring my camelbak or indeed do any preventative maintenance at home as you cart an entire workshop around 🙂

*after my blackburn experience I carried 2 pumps around for a while until I realised proper pumps don’t just suddenly give up for no reason in the middle of nowhere.

No bag for me usually. Tool bottle:
– Spare tube
– Pump
– Park patches
– Tyre levers
– Multi tool
– 15mm spanner (alfine)
– Chain breaker

Jersey pocket:
– Keys
– Phone
– Emergency £10
– Security pass for work

Bike lock is left at work
Food and clothes are kept at work, any restocking is either done on a driving day or with an Ortlieb backroller.

How often do you need to replace a bottom bracket in the middle of a 7 mile commute?!

My bag contains mostly socks, there’s a pump in there and lots of decaying AAA batteries. Mostly socks though.

Always In:[/u]
Multi tool
Tyre levers
Pump
Spare tube
Puncture repair kit
Lights
Few bits – jockey wheels, cleats, pads
Wallet
Phone
Keys

Varies:[/u]
Lunch for the day
Clothes – shorts, tshirt, socks & undies generally
Extra riding clothes if it’s really wet
Rain jacket

to be fair i do carry a fair amount of kit around and thats because in the past i used to work as a mountain bike leader for Lancashire County Council.
during that time the number of poorly maintained bikes that kids used to bring along on rides was unbelievable as was the rate of failure and it was always up to me to carry out the trailside fixes to get them up and running again.
half the tools i carry arent even to fix my own bike but to make sure the other bikes keep going

i carry a lot of lever as i have a habit of losing them. the allen keys have simply accumulated over time, i carry lots of patches as i used to suffera lot of punctures on my commute due to the crap but fast semi slicks i had on my old hardtail.
the blackburn pump is now 10 years old and still working perfectly
the bb tool was only there as i took it along to fit a bb for a friend before a ride and i’ve not got round to putting it back in the toolbox

Just spotted the hypothermia rescue blanket!

You clearly take your commuting seriously gonzy 😀

You clearly take your commuting seriously gonzy

but you missed the wire saw, pen knife and hunting knife…commuting through manchester isnt easy you know… 😉

i use the same bag for commuting and for hitting the trails…hence some of the stuff doesnt get taken out….
i guess i’m just

Actually I thought those were fair enough for Manchester 😀

Actually I thought those were fair enough for Manchester

an RPG or a mini gun would be better though….some people should not be allowed behind a steering wheel 🙄