Originally Posted by mlh122
zip ties are great for many situations. zip tie-ing found treasures to your bike, you could zip tie a stick to your arm like a splint if you broke your arm in a crash. you could zip tie cables to your bike if your fasteners broke off.
I can't think of anything for the duct tape.
the matches could be used for a campfire, and the campfire could be used for smoke signals if you got lost or injured or something.
You can even zip tie your bike back together if you break a frame. I've read more then one account in bike magazines of using a stick, jammed into the broken tubes and then using zip ties to hold it together (from the seat tube to the head tube and from a bottle cage to the head tube to put tension on it). It's not something that will take a lot of abuse but it will get you back to your car.
Raiyn has a pretty good tool set (similar to mine) however, I'd add a LED flash light of some kind. I got caught out at night about 5 miles from the trail head one night and it gets damned dark out there. My daughter had a squeeze light on her key chain which helped but holding the light on can cramp the fingers real bad
We now carry some kind of flash light in both our packs.
You can see my tool kit
here