The thing you value most.
12-08-06 | 02:34 PM
#26
Wher'd u Get That Jacket?
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,317
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From: Somewhere in the Tubes
Bikes: Calfee Dragonfly, Lemond Poprad, Airborne Manhatten Project, Calfee Luna Fixie
My favorite piece of gear is my Rapha jacket. www.rapha.cc. Hate to be borderline shilling, but that jacket is the bomb. Dead sexy, windproof, comfortable, high quality, fits perfectly; they thought of just about everything. Got it two Christmases ago and it is still going strong.
12-08-06 | 02:48 PM
#27
Been Around Awhile
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 30,658
Likes: 1,977
From: Burlington Iowa
Bikes: Vaterland and Ragazzi
Appropriate audio hardware/software and good set of rear lights mounted high for maximum visibility.
12-08-06 | 02:50 PM
#28
Senior Member
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 179
Likes: 0
From: Magnolia, DE
Bikes: Aegis Road Bike, Gunnar Rockhound, Specialized Transition Elite, Van Dessel Holeshot, 1989 Trek converted to SS commuter
Stainless steel vacuum thermos. No matter how cold, no matter what breaks, wherever I end up I've got good hot coffee with me.
12-08-06 | 02:54 PM
#30
Cigar Smokin' Cyclist
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 52
Likes: 0
From: Springfield, MO
Bikes: Trek 1400, Specialized Stumpjumper, Trek 4300
Originally Posted by flipped4bikes
How come nobody's mentioned a spare tube?
12-08-06 | 03:27 PM
#33
Living the n+1
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 2,746
Likes: 2
From: Off the back
Bikes: 2019 RM Pipeline, 2019 RM Blizzard, 2013 SuperX, 2007 Litespeed Vortex, 1970 Falcon Olympic, 2008 RM Metropolis IGH, 2004 Specialized Enduro, 2006 Langster
My light. I can substitute everything else I regularly use for commuting except for my light.
12-08-06 | 04:15 PM
#35
Software for Cyclists
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 4,618
Likes: 0
From: Redding, California
Bikes: Trek 5200, Specialized MTB
Originally Posted by flythebike
My favorite piece of gear is my Rapha jacket. www.rapha.cc. Hate to be borderline shilling, but that jacket is the bomb. Dead sexy, windproof, comfortable, high quality, fits perfectly; they thought of just about everything. Got it two Christmases ago and it is still going strong.
12-08-06 | 04:27 PM
#36
Senior Member
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 1,766
Likes: 0
From: North of the 49th Parallel (GPS grid soon)
Bikes: MTB Peugoet Canyon (forgot the model), Nikishi? roadbike, MTB custom build,
Now a days I don't ride without a helmet no matter what looks I get when I go shopping and such and the views people place on me. Safety is important to me.
What I always carry on each ride is :
-*Helmet (Never ride without)
-*Cellphone
-Tire repair kit + pump
-Customised bike multi-tool kit
-First Aid kit
-Spare tube
-Chaintool
-Ulocks
At night everything said above plus the following :
-Frontlight
-Rearlight (always attached)
-Reflecting jacket/vest
-Spare batteries for headlight
-Flashlight for beaming drivers that wish to gun the intersection so they know I'm there and moving in
-Tiny keychain LED long lasting flashlight which is my spare emergency blinky and used to see if all lights are out/drained to change batteries
I guess if I had to narrow it all down it would be the cellphone and repair/maintance kit so I can call for help or repair myself as sometimes I may be outside store hours to buy supplies to fix the bike or get help or in the middle of no where.
Zero_Enigma
What I always carry on each ride is :
-*Helmet (Never ride without)
-*Cellphone
-Tire repair kit + pump
-Customised bike multi-tool kit
-First Aid kit
-Spare tube
-Chaintool
-Ulocks
At night everything said above plus the following :
-Frontlight
-Rearlight (always attached)
-Reflecting jacket/vest
-Spare batteries for headlight
-Flashlight for beaming drivers that wish to gun the intersection so they know I'm there and moving in
-Tiny keychain LED long lasting flashlight which is my spare emergency blinky and used to see if all lights are out/drained to change batteries
I guess if I had to narrow it all down it would be the cellphone and repair/maintance kit so I can call for help or repair myself as sometimes I may be outside store hours to buy supplies to fix the bike or get help or in the middle of no where.
Zero_Enigma
12-08-06 | 05:29 PM
#37
Every lane is a bike lane
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 9,666
Likes: 16
From: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia - passionfruit capital of the universe!
On commutes in this city, arrogance and cynicism. Cynicism ensures that nothing I see out there on the road will surprise me, and arrogance gives me the ability to respond in whatever way I deem necessary.
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I am clinically insane. I am proud of it.
That is all.
I am clinically insane. I am proud of it.
That is all.
12-09-06 | 12:13 AM
#38
CRIKEY!!!!!!!
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 4,276
Likes: 702
From: all the way down under
Bikes: several
....and the most obvious one that (I think) nobody's mentioned - my bike!
[edit] nevermind, i just re-read the OP
[edit] nevermind, i just re-read the OP
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"Surely one can love his own country without becoming hopelessly lost in an all-consuming flame of narrow-minded nationalism" - Fred Birchmore
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12-09-06 | 02:50 PM
#42
I would have to have one to begin with to miss it.
With all the flats I have had over the last few months it is a tossup between my pump, tire levers, patches, and the spare tube.
With all the flats I have had over the last few months it is a tossup between my pump, tire levers, patches, and the spare tube.
12-09-06 | 05:01 PM
#43
Portland Fred
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 11,553
Likes: 54
Bikes: Custom Winter, Challenge Seiran SL, Fuji Team Pro, Cattrike Road/Velokit, РOS hybrid
Originally Posted by ax0n
2 problems:
1) I do not have access to image adjusting tools at work, and the online ones I've seen are either blocked at work, or do not function properly. Remind me to make a PHP interface to ImageMagick soon. I use a PHP image upload thing to get stuff from my camera phone (or desktop) at work to my server. I might as well build some scripts to crop, scale, adjust color, contrast, etc.
2) Absolutely asinine Blogger limitation. It's not a thumbnail, the photos are clickable to show the full-size one, but it uses CSS to scale the images. Hey, I don't like it either.
1) I do not have access to image adjusting tools at work, and the online ones I've seen are either blocked at work, or do not function properly. Remind me to make a PHP interface to ImageMagick soon. I use a PHP image upload thing to get stuff from my camera phone (or desktop) at work to my server. I might as well build some scripts to crop, scale, adjust color, contrast, etc.
2) Absolutely asinine Blogger limitation. It's not a thumbnail, the photos are clickable to show the full-size one, but it uses CSS to scale the images. Hey, I don't like it either.
The image resizer is handy because all you need to do to resize an image is right click on the file and say what size you want.
12-09-06 | 06:19 PM
#45
Senior Member
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 2,538
Likes: 0
From: Coquitlam
Originally Posted by SSP
Holy crap - $265-$325 for a cycling jacket? For that price, it should pedal the bike, and change my flats!!
03-07-07 | 10:46 AM
#48
Senior Member
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 873
Likes: 0
From: Livonia, MI
Bikes: Pacific Duece AL with mods
The greatest thing about my morning commute is that it ends at my house instead of work. My evening commute is to work and what I value most is when I get a cup of coffee at 7-11 on my way in and it doesn't leak all over my BB. That usually only happens when I forget that I bought coffee in a styrofoam cup and I try to get some air on the speed bumps
