Thread: What Do You Carry In Your CamelBak/BackPack??
View Single Post
Old 03-03-07 | 11:05 AM
  #113  
cyccommute's Avatar
cyccommute
Mad bike riding scientist
Titanium Club Membership
20 Anniversary
Community Builder
Community Influencer
 
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 29,068
Likes: 6,092
From: Denver, CO

Bikes: Some silver ones, a red one, a black and orange one, and a few titanium ones

Originally Posted by HandsomeRyan
probably a stupid n00b question but why cary a patch kit AND extra tube? if you are patching it you aren't replacing it and vice-versa?
Because at times you get far more flats than you could possibly carry tubes for. Sometimes you get more flats than you have patches. If you use Slime and you are in an area of the dreaded Tribulus terrestris L., you can even run out of Slime to fill the holes

Same with CO2 cartridges. Which is why I carry a pump
__________________
Stuart Black
Dreamin' of Bemidji Down the Mississippi (in part)
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!





cyccommute is offline  
Reply
0