If you could tell me what is over complicated about the following which I regard as the basic essentials I’ll be interested to learn:
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Survival blanket (duplicated)
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Lights x 2 (when needed)
Garmin
Helmet
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Cycling wallet ID, cash etc
See above IMO. Plus many of the rest could be packed up together to make life simpler than gathering them all individually every time - when you wrote 23 items or whatever it was, I didn't realise you were counting each tool as an extra one.
As for the comments about cars. I simply pointed out if it’s reasonable to leave the items required to fix a car puncture in the car the same applies to Bikes. The rest is irrelevant.
The weight difference between the items required to fix a car puncture and those to fix a bike puncture is relevant. I suspect if the car kit weighed less than a half-kilo, more people would have better tools and not leave them in the car.
