The Puncture Repair Kit Conundrum

[Heltor Chasca]

Who doesn’t carry minimalist tools because they are too heavy?

I have the solution: Carry on as you are and leave your repair kit out of the picture. When you do experience a flat it will be a good moment to endure the walk of shame. It would also be a good time to wreck your expensive SPDs. Maybe in the cold and the dark you will choose your other cleat removal plan and find the cleat screws have seized and you shear the bolt wrecking them anyway.

Or:

Velotastic do some lightweight tools which weigh less than a sandwich should you not come up with a better plan than not taking tools.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

If you are riding a cx bike then you have already given up on superfluous weight. Puncture repair kit is less than 0.5% of your setup.

 

[Racing roadkill]

I don’t bother with a puncture repair kit myself

 

[Jenkins]

If you are riding a cx bike then you have already given up on superfluous weight...

And also added the mudguards, rack & panniers. Since they're fitted, the panniers would be the ideal place to store the spare tube, levers & pump.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

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#superfluousweight

Yes, but that's the rubber band adding unnecessary weight.

 

[screenman]

I cannot understand guys carrying a tube without filling it with helium first.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Used to have a 5 mile rule. Puncture kit if over 5. I think I've lowered it to around 3 1/2 miles now because walking seems increasingly slow.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I cannot understand guys carrying a tube without filling it with helium first.

Or drinking a pint of light first...

 

[screenman]

There are 6 bikes hanging up here, everyone has a pouch on with two tubes, levers and co2 in. As a teenager would you have gone out on a Saturday night without the required safety equipment.

 

[slowmotion]

Or drinking a pint of light first...

.. or going out without cutting off superfluous toenails and nasal hairs....

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I'm often too far from home to walk if I puncture so I carry spare tube, puncture kit, levers and pump. Even on short trips I carry the kit.

 

[smutchin]

If you are riding a cx bike then you have already given up on superfluous weight. Puncture repair kit is less than 0.5% of your setup.

Not to mention that the aerodynamic drag of the panniers probably has a far greater effect on speed than any small variations in weight.

 

[mjr]

I'm often too far from home to walk if I puncture so I carry spare tube, puncture kit, levers and pump. Even on short trips I carry the kit.

People walk internationally. You just should leave earlier!

 

[straas]

I cut all the nobbles off my nobbly tyres to reduce unnecessary weight.

I've also taken my brake blocks out.

 

[mjr]

Really? Why ever not?

Because he likes all the hot air to escape advocating galosh wheels.