I have a little waterproof sack with a small multitool, tire lever, ID and some cash. May throw in an extra CO2 if the roads look bad.
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Yours looks a lot like mine except I tend to raid the bag for cash during lean months and forget to replace it. I used to go without for a sprint but a ride back in the sag left a bitter taste. I paid for the race, I’m finishing. If you have opposable thumbs, it shouldn’t take all that long to fix a flat.
21 years of racing…hundreds of races…zero flats. Now a days I do nothing more then Olympic distance, mostly sprints.
I carrying nothing. Just me and the bike. In training I carry a cell phone to call my wife to deliver a new wheel.
Always. And if I have a respectable race I beat them all!
Seriously, I usually start with one, It has taken a while to put together a system where I actually finish with it though.
I always race with a tool belt. It’s the only way to be prepared for the HammerFest
Question for those, seems quite a few, that carry nothing for Olympics and sprints. If you flat out on the course, what do you do? I am not concerned about oh wow I gotta finish, but if your are 8mi from transition how do you get back?
Also, how much time do you figure you save in a sprint or Oly by not carrying a small bag of tools; seriously.
nothing for sprint and Olympic. If I get a flat my race is screwed anyway…
for a half, a tube and CO2
In a water bottle I keep
-tube
-crack pipe adapter
-Co2 inflator head.
-depending on the bike 2 Co2 (if I have my rear mount, they are on it)
-Parktool slim multitool (not that Gigantic monstrosity they sell…)
-1 Tire lever
-Electrical Tape (possibly the biggest life saver of them all)
-Extra Contact Lens
Can you give me ideas on what the electrical tape be used for?
I usually don’t but one time I left my seat bag full of tools on my bike and it was just as well because I spied one very sad looking pro type walking his bike back to transition after breaking his chain.I stopped and gave him my chain breaker so he could fix his chain and ride back to T2.I didn’t know who he was at the time but found out later that it was jonnyo.
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Kinda what I wonder… I seemed to be moving alright today at my Olympic distance race today and I had a bag with me.
in my underseat bag I have:
spare tube
tire levers
2x co2 cartridge
inflator head
leatherman skeletool
hex tool with 8-9 hex keys in it
I’ve never taken it off for a race, it only weighs a pound or two and has come in handy during events more than once.