Just added this to the kit:

It's okay. Taking the el isn't an option for Steely Dan, either.

Allen wrenches
Screwdriver
Little adjustable wrench
Spoke wrench
Chain tool
Tire levers
Patch kit
Tube
Extra nuts
These all fit under my seat

Plus small pump, wallet, phone (not shown)

Some variation* of this



and a Topeak pump. This is my mountain bike kit but I use the Camelbak while commuting and touring too.

-pump
-multi tool ( I think it's a cheap Nashbar one)
-dogbone wrench (6-15 mm)
-2 Park TL1 tire levers
-2 patch kits (standard and glue-less)
-spare tube
-spare spokes, mainly for IGH use
-spoke wrench
-triflow
-little foil-wrapped wet wipes

Didn't realize you were such a weight weenie.

my list commuting:

sm crescent
park tool MT1
tire levers
patch kit
tube
small first aid kit, just some bandaids and asprin, tums
bandana for sweat or cleaning up.
mini pump.

Added for weekend trips more than 20 miles from home.
spoke wrench
Zip ties
Duct tape
backpacking 1st aid kit.

I keep meaning to figure out the master link I need and add a chain breaker.

I'm shocked some of you Freds don't carry a spare frame. Shocked I tell you, shocked.

Without listing it all, I lean towards the more prepared end of the spectrum. I don't have a bus or train to catch. If I could lasso a moose, maybe I could hitch a ride back to wherever he is going. But that might not be in the direction I was headed. So in addition to just about all of the things you guys have posted, I also carry a spare brake cable and spare shifter cable, as well as a rag. I also keep a couple of short lengths of paracord (~18" each) that I'll use as third and fourth hands to hold a tire in place when mounting it.

For wrenches and such, I currently carry a Crank Brothers Multitool. In the past, I have just carried loose hex wrenches, and I sometimes wonder about going back to that. I like having the chain tool around. I've only had a chain break once, but it was an easy fix. I didn't worry about the broken link--I just removed it and put the chain back together minus that link. It rode and shifted fine for hundreds of miles before I was able to replace it.

If I could fit a brompton in the pannier...

Hook a Free Radical kit to that Graduate of yours, and you could.

More than I really need to. I can tear my bike down just about anywhere with the tools i carry.

While commuting- a minimalist kit.
Lezyme tire pump, quickstik tire tool, park mt-1 multitool,
A tube, skabbs tire patches (use two per hole). With
IGH bike, I include a 15mm SK Shorty combination wrench.

All in one tiny box.


oh, and one inner tube too.

I knew where this thread was headed. Next post is a picture of a commuter followed by a repair van.

In case the van needs fixing?

I carry a hex wrench multi-tool that includes a flat blade and Phillips screw driver, a small crescent wrench, tire lever, spare tube, patch kit, Topeak frame pump, presto valve adapter, disposable neoprene gloves, a couple of zip ties and small sample size bottle of hand purifier.

I carry a small first aid kit, a lock, and a wallet.

In all the years of commuting (about 16 years) I have only had 1 flat so I locked the bike at a cafe (I asked first) and caught the train home. Came back in the afternoon and fixed the tube and had a coffee. No worries.

The first aid kit I've used on many occations. Once on myself and the other times on other people.

what are the zip ties used for?
thanks

Tools, I carry in the seat bag is a Park MTB3 minitool, cheap small Eddie Bauer folding pliers, Soma tire irons, Quik Stik, (I use to carry the VAR when I use to use Specialized Armadillo tires that were a pain to get on), pump (depending on the bike I take depends on the brand but I really like my cheapest pump the Topeak Road Morph G the best!), glueless patches, tire boot, a couple of fiber spokes, couple of zip ties, Super Glue (great for fixing stuff, sealing cuts from the outside of tires, even cuts on me), small almost worthless first aid kit. That junk all goes into the seat bag along with a spare tube, a ultralight folding racing tire, state and medical ID cards, $40 cash, spare button bat for computer, and spare AAA bats for tail lights.

Zip ties can be used for various things; one could be a rear stay breaks, find a couple of sticks and use as braces with one of each side of the stay and use the zip ties to tighten the sticks to the broken stay and limp home on the bike. You could if you had a enough make emergency "snow chains", I don't carry enough nor would I ride in the snow! Maybe a zip tie your using to tie down a computer wire or some other cable snaps you can secure it with a new zip tie. Creativeness can help you survive if you ride in remote areas as I do. Sure there's always the cell phone but even though I'm married I don't use her as a mommy, so I fix anything that may have broke on a ride and get home riding the bike not in a car.

Their uses are endless. Like I said that is my mountain bike kit so the main reason I there is if I'm in the backcountry and break a frame. I could splint the frame and use zipties to hold it together. In town, the zipties could be used for fixing a broken rack, replacing hardware that might fail or fall off, allow me to zip tie a pannier to a rack if I needed to, attach a light after crashing a breaking the mount (I've really done this one), etc.

All of that stuff has been used, and useful, at least once to get my bacon home. I'm amazed that you keyed in on the zipties and not the 16p nail.

Multi tool
pump
tire levers
2 spare tubes
Swiss army knife
patch kit
cell phone

Pump, tire levers, 3 way allen wrench, tubes

We just figured it was anti-cager.

A pair of tire levers, a pump and a 15mm wrench. So I can replace a flat tube with my spare.

If anything else broke on my bike, I'd just toss it on the bus.

- CO2 pump with a couple cartridges
- tire levers
- spare tube
- patch kit
- Cell phone 'cause sometimes you may need to call for backup.