Originally Posted by
azza_333
All these threads about UL lately have got me thinking what I can cut out of my gear. I already have a pretty lean gear list, but I was thinking a puncture repair kit do I really need to take one, I have used it once. I got a flat swapped to my spare tube, continued riding, repaired the spare tube over night, the next day rode past a bike shop and picked up a new spare tube and threw out the repaired one. I am considering ditching it from my Japan touring kit, since I will be able to find a shop that can sell me a new spare tube in every town (at most 60km away). I also only carry one spare tube on my Japan tours. What are every ones thoughts?
If you're getting to the point in your UL mindset of thinking about throwing out your patch repair kit, then I would give the UL thinking a rest for a while. I've been in many places where there were no bike shops around for umpteen miles, so unless you're always touring near cities, than don't even consider ditching the tube repair kit.
BTW, why did you throw out the patched tube? I've had tubes with tons of patches, the patches are actually stronger than the tube.