This June will be my 30th anniversary of road cycling. I've been stranded one time in my life, and it was due to multiple flats, three Co2 carts and stick on patches that don't work half the time. It taught me to carry a mini pump in my jersey pocket (frame pumps on my vintage bikes) and glue on patches. And a spare tube of course. You don't even notice a mini-pump in the pocket unless you get some huge one, I don't see how that would be an issue to anybody.