I carry wrenches, patches, misc other bits. And I just had to repair a flat on Dec 3rd at Franklin Ave SE and East River Parkway, MNBikeGuy should know where that is. Temp some where below 20 and the rear tire goes flat. The Seca tire, with FPS (grumble, grumble), was flat and, well, weird lookin. I'm assuming it didn't like being cold and flat since it looked like the air had been sucked out of it. I wrecked my plastic tire irons getting the tire loose, leaving it in the frame because I didn't want to handle the now very cold wrenches needed to take it out. Found the hole in the tube but nothing in the tire. One Park Super Patch later, a little air, and off to work I go.

Things I learned:

Chemical hand warmers, life savers they are!

Seca tires, crap they are. Threw out front Seca tire after 2 months, threw out last one last week. I put the Continental Gatorskins back on and Slimed them. One winter fix was enough. My fault for using them, I should have returned them after the two identical 27x1.25 tires had different bead circumferences.