Doing my first 70.3 in a few weeks. Here’s what’s in my saddle bag (clinchers)…
- 2 tubes
- 2 CO2
- 1 inflator adapter thing
- 1 tire level
Sound about right?
Same here, but recently switched from a saddle bag to a Dark Speed Works bento bag.
2 tubes
3 tire levers with duct tape wrapped arouond 2 of them
small baggie with 3-4 press-on patches in it
peggy
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1 tube, 1 Co2, 2 tire wrenches, master link and a multi tool. That’s all I can fit in my Draft Box.
1 tube
1 co2 + inflator
1 tire lever
I see some bikes in transition with ginormous flat kits- 3 tubes, 3 co2’s, bristling out from behind the seat, etc. Not sure what they’re expecting to encounter out on the road…
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Doing my first 70.3 in a few weeks. Here’s what’s in my saddle bag (clinchers)…
- 2 tubes
- 2 CO2
- 1 inflator adapter thing
- 1 tire level
Sound about right?
this but one extra Co2
1 tube
1 co2 + inflator
1 tire lever
I see some bikes in transition with ginormous flat kits- 3 tubes, 3 co2’s, bristling out from behind the seat, etc. Not sure what they’re expecting to encounter out on the road…
This.
I’ll have a spare tubular, razor blade and 2 CO2s
You can actually tape the CO2s under your saddle and it will be out of the wind to leave extra room for whatever else you need. I have a picture of when I did that somewhere I’ll try to find it. Basically I taped the two CO2s together with the valve thing and then taped it to the rails of the saddle.
Hahaha, same here. Vittoria Pitt Stop taped to my top tube behind the stem.
Here’s the stuff I have in my “flat kit bottle.” In theory it could handle 6 flats (1 tube, 5 patches)…but like Norman, I might call it a day after #2. I just use a micropump (slow, but if I flat the extra 3 min of pumping aren’t going to make a difference, and I always want to make sure I can finish…too many CO2 misfires).
Why do you have a tire lever? When I change tubes, I just use my hands…noticed they do this at the LBS as well. (Clinchers). Just wondering if I am missing something I would need if I flat on race day/.
Even for oly…Chainlock and multitool plus above mentioned.
Continental gp 4000 I wouldn’t try without levers, but maybe I’m a whimp.
1 tube
2 CO2
1 Chuck
1 Tire lever
small box of Super Glue patches
(Also in there is $2 cash and some change for convenience store purchases, as needed. I don’t switch it up between training and racing.)
Why do you have a tire lever? When I change tubes, I just use my hands…noticed they do this at the LBS as well. (Clinchers). Just wondering if I am missing something I would need if I flat on race day/.
Older Zipp 808’s, damn near impossible to get a tire off without a lever. I can do it by hand with my other wheels, but the 808s, not a chance.
Why do you have a tire lever? When I change tubes, I just use my hands…noticed they do this at the LBS as well. (Clinchers). Just wondering if I am missing something I would need if I flat on race day/.
Depending on the tire/rim combination (and even the thickness of the rim strip), the force needed to remove/install the tire can be very different. I can do my GP4000s onto my HED C2 rims by hand, but I have an old aerospoke that I have to use steel core levers to get tires off of.
If you can install/remove tires from your tire/rim combo by hand then skip the lever (it will be faster as well).
For ref I just weighed one of my Slime tire levers: 9.1g, and a Performance lever: 12.9g. So that is the weight savings.
One tube, one CO2, one valve adapter. All in a bag the size of a spare tube box stuffed under the seat. That’s just to get you back to T2, because your race is over. 99% of the time, I ride no bag, no kit. If it’s raining, or has recently rained hard, I’ll bring the bag because of crap getting washed into the street.
Saddle bag?
I kid, I kid. Spare tube, CO2, tire lever, and possibly a 4-6mm allen key, because I’ve had bolts that I thought were secure rattle loose on rough roads. Nothing worse than a tilted aerobar or a sliding seat 28 miles from the finish…