How many spare tubes do you carry?

[gaz]

i take one and a repair kit, i genreally replace the broken one on the side, and fix the other one later.

 

[BentMikey]

...that's assuming your tubes don't get irretrievably damaged in some way, such as via valve failure. It's not that uncommon.

 

[GAVSTER]

I leave a tube under the saddle held with a lacky band as an emergency tube. The main spare is in the saddle bag.

 

[tordis]

Just one in my rear pannier - and still haven't had the need to use it. Which is a good thing.

 

[John the Monkey]

I try not to throw them away even if they are unsuable again as innertubes. Recent re-use as included as a sleave for a chain to stop the chain scratching a bike, bar tape on a kiddies bike stuck with a bit of PVE, and as a rope substitue in my poly-tunnel holding some staging to the structure.

I use "sleeve" type lengths of unrepairable tube to hold spare batteries together in the bag on my commute. I used another bit to cover the valve hole on my Airtool Road pump to stop gunk getting in it. They really are very handy.

 

[garrilla]

I use "sleeve" type lengths of unrepairable tube to hold spare batteries together in the bag on my commute.

nice

 

[jonny jeez]

2 plus a proper "old school" repair kit...those instant patches ...just aren't

 

[Corvette chic]

Just one in my rear pannier - and still haven't had the need to use it. Which is a good thing.

aargh - calls down the god of puctures "i will slaughter my first born to appease you" well you've done it now

 

[Perry]

I have one but feel that I should carry two.

 

[BentMikey]

2 plus a proper "old school" repair kit...those instant patches ...just aren't

+1

Old school is best sometimes.

 

[numbnuts]

three and repair kit

 

[mojones]

Three tubes in my pannier at the moment, but that's just because I bought a pack of three from the bike shop and haven't bothered unwrapping them yet. Normally I carry two - I reckon that between a change of clothes, packed lunch etc I'm already carrying quite a bit of weight so might as well have extra backup.

 

[palinurus]

If I'm commuting on an Armadillo-shod bike, one.

If I take the crosser, two.

Longer rides: two

Patch kit? rarely. Touring only.

Maybe it ain't right, but it's what I do.

 

[J4CKO]

I did have two but helped out a fellow cyclist at work, he was sat there with his rusty heap of a bike with a long commute to do and no spare tubes, I lent him one of mine and he faithfully promised to bring me a replacement but none has arrived, so next time he can p1ss off, not bothered about the three quid but it doesnt fit with my way of doing things.

I have slime tubes at the moment so hoping to be spared a few, saying that, topped one up, came to it, flat so swapped it for a normal one to get to work, left it pumped up seemed fine, do they go flat if you dont shut the valve fully ?

 

[biking_fox]

two.

Trying to repair a tube at the roadside (esp in the rain) is no fun at all. It's quite easy to run both wheels over a thorn branch or draincover and wreck two tubes at once. Plus I'm still prone (even after many years) to pinching a tube when fitting it.