what's the most useful/best thing you have bought?

[DooDah]

Getting back to the OP, chamois cream, and padded shorts

 

[I like Skol]

About 25 years ago I bought a cheap little spoke key.................

Still got it and use it to build my indistructi-wheels

EDIT: I'll post a pic later if I get chance, just to show how basic it is. It goes everywhere with me so has done thousands of miles too.

Never leave home without it

 

[young Ed]

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Never leave home without it

it's a lump of metal with a slot!
if it work it works!
hang on i have access to a cnc milling machine i could make that
Cheers Ed

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

have done a bit of bivying on private land with land owner permission but will be trying wild bivying soon
Cheers Ed

not all it is always cracked up to be in the rain, in swamp forest, in Sweden, in summer and then there was that conversation with my OH...

Me - So what brings you here then?
Stuart - The midges.
Me - Oh - are you studying them?
Stuart - No, I think they are studying me. They keep taking lots of tiny blood samples from me, (pause). What brings you here then?
Me - Oh, just a bike ride.
Stuart - Just a small one then?
Me - yes, something like that.
Stuart - Just the 1 lap?
Me - Probably, not decided yet.

 

[young Ed]

not all it is always cracked up to be in the rain, in swamp forest, in Sweden, in summer and then there was that conversation with my OH...

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hey i'm Swedish and yes in the middle of the woods in the damp in the summer in the midges it's not always great but hey ho tough it out eh! i have camped a few times in the Swedish forest in summer and still enjoyed it
woke up at about 5 or so to an elk about 20 or so metres away making lots of elk noise
Cheers Ed

 

[the_mikey]

Garmin edge 800

That or a chain breaker tool, tyre levers, track pump, KMC quick links, water bottle cages....

 

[400bhp]

A helmet

Then a camera

Airzound

Then one of those indicator flashy things

Some expensive lighter wheels that make me go faster

Rapha clothing

 

[I like Skol]

it's a lump of metal with a slot!

It never lets me down.....

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Park Tool AK-37 toolbox. I've used most of the tools in it, now, as I've been progressively teaching myself to maintain and replace all my bicycle parts over the last few years, and this toolbox has been great.

 

[Big Nick]

My cycle rack and bag, load lugging capacity brings a whole new dimension to a bikes usefulness

 

[Silver Fox]

Reverb dropper post.

 

[sackville d]

I`m often telling `em at work about my adventures with my little tool in hand up on the hills but I`d be stuffed without Ibuprofen

 

[Cubist]

Reverb
Garmin
Work stand
Tubeless wheel sets
Cotic Soul frame
Camelbak
Mojo frame

 

[donnyjnk]

both bikes
BeOne storm and boardman comp mtb.

 

[Kookas]

A good front light. Invaluable, really.