Originally Posted by
staehpj1
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Just me, but...
I never bother with a spare tire and wouldn't carry one even with a group. Worst case I'd hitch a ride to a bike shop. I figure that is very unlikely though since in literally hundreds of thousands of miles I have always been able to patch or boot tires well enough to have never been stranded.
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We all rely on experience to make choices like this. I would not do a tour without a spare tire. More than once, I've had a tire sufficiently damaged so that it was unrepairable. There's an extra 500 or so grams I need to carry,
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