Originally Posted by
pdlamb
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(1) Pack a couple pairs of rubber (Park) gloves. It gets messy. Throw in a rag or two.
(2) Pack a small tube of the S&S recommended grease. If you don't, even though it was well greased when you pack it, you may have trouble tightening the couplers (learned that one the hard way).
(3) I now have a 4 mm, 5 Nm click-style preset torque wrench for tightening my stem bolts. It's cheaper or at least easier than finding a new stem after you strip a bolt.
(4) My bike has square taper cranks and auto extractor crank bolts.
(5) Take your coupler wrench (I'm still using the S&S wrench) and a hex wrench (8 mm) to fit your crank bolt in your saddle bag. I've used both on the road.
(6) Get a decent, not necessarily extravagant, hex key set for the bike bag. You can take out whatever you won't need (like that big, heavy 10 mm monster).
(7) I leave pedals attached to the crank, and saddle attached to the seatpost. On smaller bikes, some people took off the pedals and left the cranks on.
(8) I theorize you might fit fenders around the wheels in the box, but my travel bike is the only one I own which doesn't have fenders.
Some good points, above.
Gloves, before covid my dental hygienist was always happy to give me a few pairs of gloves when I asked. But last fall she told me that they are still paying five times as much as they used to for gloves, she was told not to hand them out.
If the 10mm is an allen wrench, what do you use that for? The only time I have used one is for a Shimano freehub on an older style hub with steel axles. Or if that is an open end wrench to use on nuts on an M6 bolt, Park and a few others make a nice 8 and 10mm open end wrench that weighs very little.