07-04-2011, 06:55 PM
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So far my handlebar bag is good, except for like you said, the zipper kinda sucks. But the reason I got it is for riding trails, carrying a wallet, camera, sunglasses, chapstick, etc, etc.....you know, a possibles bag that I can just pull off and carry with me.
Anyway, back to the cheap under the seat bags, this is all the shit I carry on my road bike, the collections always grows and shrinks and changes as I see fit, but this is the basics.
I always say, never leave anything to chance.
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So here we have my co2 inflater, 6 co2 cartridges, 4 wire ties, (I can mount any tire made with a wire tie and 3 tire levers, you'll come asking me about this if you ever get a tight fitting tire), a presta valve adapter, pliers, my woody multi tool, 1 spare tube, 3 patch kits, 1 old style patch kit with glue and thick rubber patches for a temporary tire repair, money, a piece of bent wire, a finishing nail, (these are for pushing an object like a piece of broken glass out of your tire so you don't flat again as soon as you get it fixed), a pen, (for marking the hole in the tube and marking the tire so you know where the valve was so you can line the hole in the tube up to the tire and look for the culprit that made you go flat in the first place) 3 spare clips to hold BOB onto the bike in case one breaks, (I've never had one break yet but I have 10 spares and I've never even towed BOB with this bike).
OK, that is a pretty well rounded emergency kit, there might be a few more things in there that I can't or didn't see. There should be some matches in there and a shotgun, but I must have left them in my other bike.
Anyway, back to the cheap under the seat bags, this is all the shit I carry on my road bike, the collections always grows and shrinks and changes as I see fit, but this is the basics.
I always say, never leave anything to chance.
So here we have my co2 inflater, 6 co2 cartridges, 4 wire ties, (I can mount any tire made with a wire tie and 3 tire levers, you'll come asking me about this if you ever get a tight fitting tire), a presta valve adapter, pliers, my woody multi tool, 1 spare tube, 3 patch kits, 1 old style patch kit with glue and thick rubber patches for a temporary tire repair, money, a piece of bent wire, a finishing nail, (these are for pushing an object like a piece of broken glass out of your tire so you don't flat again as soon as you get it fixed), a pen, (for marking the hole in the tube and marking the tire so you know where the valve was so you can line the hole in the tube up to the tire and look for the culprit that made you go flat in the first place) 3 spare clips to hold BOB onto the bike in case one breaks, (I've never had one break yet but I have 10 spares and I've never even towed BOB with this bike).
OK, that is a pretty well rounded emergency kit, there might be a few more things in there that I can't or didn't see. There should be some matches in there and a shotgun, but I must have left them in my other bike.