What do you take on a ride ?

[vickster]

Surely it depends how far you are going and where

Sometimes, I literally take phone, keys, possibly cash and a water bottle, if just an hour run. Other times, D lock, clothing, food, Garmin, more cash, credit card, rail pass, lights etc etc etc etc

Phone might be in saddle bag, pannier bag, pocket, depends on what bike, clothing worn and so on. Never on handlebars tho, after a couple of near disasters with a not very reliable bar mounted iPhone case!!

I've never changed a tube on the road, so although I may carry one and a pump, never had any joy fixing and have found alternate means home

 

[Mark White]

Got a puncture repair kit with a spare tube in a plastic bag with a load of talcum powder in it (I read somewhere it avoids the tube chafing), multitool, cloth (for cleaning oily hands), emergency money, tyre levers, cable ties, and all of that is in an under-seat bag.

I keep my mobile phone in a waterproof ziplock style carrier with a neck strap and tuck it into the strap of my bib. I use Map My Ride with voice announcements and can't hear it in my back pocket. Can't say I've had a problem with nipple chafe doing this.

 

[numbnuts]

Didn't we have this a couple of weeks ago

 

[MattE72]

Bottle of water/squash & pump on the frame. My multi-tool, spoke spanner, tyre-levers, puncture repair kit in my saddle bag. Phone, inhaler, snack and a fiver for a pint on the way around in my jacket!

 

[Nicol]

Newbie as well and had same thoughts on what to carry. Ive just started using small saddle pouch for tube, levers, pump, tool and keep the phone, money, key, gels, food in jersey pouch. Seems to do fine (so far !!) Recent Gore top I bought has a plastic pouch in rear pocket for mobile, nice touch.

 

[KneesUp]

My commute is only short, so if I had any bike issues I'd just walk it home I suppose. That said I currently have in my rucksack a selection of full sized spanner (8mm, 10mm, 12mm, 15mm and 16mm) a folding allen key tool and a pair of pliers for no other reason than I haven't taken them out since the Easter holidays. The spanners jangle together on bumps to remind me how heavy they are

 

[JasonHolder]

This is all i take on any length ride. Saddle bags are my pet hate. I want to kick people off bikes when I see one.
I would normally ride with a jacket stuffed in a jersey pocket but weather forecast app is decent.

Always 2 water bottles half sugary stuff half water.
Left jersey pocket
Spare tube
Pocket pump

Middle pocket
Bananas or welsh cakes

Right jersey pocket
Music/Ostrava phone and some money.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Didn't we have this a couple of weeks ago

Probably - but life's like that.

If every forum and indeed every conversation was limited to original questions, thoughts and moans etc then the world would be a very silent place.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Little wedge saddle bag with probably a bit more than most people as I'm a pessimist. As above but also stuff like spare cleat bolts, small adjustable spanner, pliers, duck tape, garden wire, mudguard eyebolts, random sharp knife for accidentally cutting finger when looking for tubes ...) In jersey fig rolls/sarnies/jelly babies. Also unless the weather forecast is genuinely credibly clear, and it really, really doesn't look like rain, then a rain top in jersey pocket. On the bars, Garmin 60CSx. In winter, on the seat tube bikebuddy + flask of coffee. Sometimes Gopro camera.

If night riding Hope 1 on the bars, Fibre Flares on the seat stays. In all conditions a little front and rear light in case I get caught out at dusk.

Useless, utterly pointless cable lock coiled around the seat post.

In shorts/trousers (depending on weather) pocket, mobile phone, money, keys, train pass. Some of this will move to jacket pocket if riding with a jacket in winter.

Also there will normally be a carefully prepared drinks bottle of squash/juice left in my kitchen, and a bottle of water that I've had to buy from a newsagents on the down tube.

 

[MattMM]

Pretty much as above, tubes, pump, levers. Really need to get a chain multitool, paranoic about chain lube/condition anyway so never had any broken link issues. I use just a ziplock food bag for my iPhone, works fine running Strava. Either jam it in my shell jacket front pocket or my left rear jersey one. Oaty cereal bars for refuelling, plus shell jacket rolled up in my middle pocket or deployed.

 

[Dave 123]

I have one of these in my jersey pocket-

https://www.alpkit.com/products/mission

In it I have 2 tubes, 2 tyre levers, a puncture kit. I prefer this as I used to have a saddle bag but the rattling over bumps annoyed me.
Phone, money and snacks, and a waterproof.

The other alpkit pouches are really handy. The biggest one is ipad sized.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I have one of these in my jersey pocket-

https://www.alpkit.com/products/mission

In it I have 2 tubes, 2 tyre levers, a puncture kit. I prefer this as I used to have a saddle bag but the rattling over bumps annoyed me.
Phone, money and snacks, and a waterproof.

The other alpkit pouches are really handy. The biggest one is ipad sized.

What an excellent site - thanks.

 

[GreigM]

Topeak saddle wedge bag with a couple of spare tubes, tyre levers, pump, patches in case both tubes get used and since my chain broke, a spare link and chain tool. I don't think the ipod touch has gps does it??

Pretty much the same as I carry, however I would have no idea how to use the chain tool if I needed too lol

 

[Dark46]

At the moment a spear innertube and pump in my back pack

 

[wisdom]

Got a puncture repair kit with a spare tube in a plastic bag with a load of talcum powder in it (I read somewhere it avoids the tube chafing), multitool, cloth (for cleaning oily hands), emergency money, tyre levers, cable ties, and all of that is in an under-seat bag.

I keep my mobile phone in a waterproof ziplock style carrier with a neck strap and tuck it into the strap of my bib. I use Map My Ride with voice announcements and can't hear it in my back pocket. Can't say I've had a problem with nipple chafe doing this.

Mark what phone case do you use