[dottigirl]

As inspired by the Howies Llaeth review, what goes in each?

Most of my jerseys have three pockets, so it’s as follows:

Left – phone, cards & money in slim plastic thing, keys

Middle – pump, cafe lock, clear or sunglasses, sometimes a spare layer (jacket, snood, or base)

Right – lip balm, paracetamol, tissue, energy bar/snack, eyeliner.

 

If I stop and pick up a few groceries on the way home, I usually stick the milk in the middle (emptying it first into the right), chocolate bar on the left, and anything else down the front of my jersey. 

Topic

[Danger Dicko]

Left pocket – Energy gel and

Left pocket – Energy gel and water proof/gilet if required. CO2 pump

Centre pocket – Rapha essentials case with spare tube, multitool, tyre lever, self adhesive patches and cash.

Right pocket – Mobile phone and my garage opener.

[The _Kaner]

On me…as in the pic below.

On me…as in the pic below. Lezyne caddy has room for cash/CI license 3 x zero tabs and spare battery for front light (lezyne micro XL)

On the bike a Lezyne saddle pack (small/loaded on the aeroad, medium for the defy) 2 x inner tubes, patch kit, multi tool and 2 x tyre levers…with micro pump attached to bottle cage(s)

[Dr_Lex]

Kapelmuur wrote:

[…]now everything is on the bike[…]

 

Snap. The only thing that ends up in my pockets is a pair of mitts/gloves.

[turnerjohn]

s_lim wrote:

wycombewheeler wrote:

sort of emergencies that can be solved with a snickers i guess, unless he wants to buy a bottle of water so he can find the hole in his inner tube.

First one, definitely. 

Second one: does anyone fix tubes these days? 

if you puncture your spare (I take three just in case) then your b*ggered !

[s_lim]

wycombewheeler wrote:

sort of emergencies that can be solved with a snickers i guess, unless he wants to buy a bottle of water so he can find the hole in his inner tube.

First one, definitely. 

Second one: does anyone fix tubes these days? 

[wycombewheeler]

alansmurphy wrote:

Emergency pound?

 

I want your kind of emergencies!

 

sort of emergencies that can be solved with a snickers i guess, unless he wants to buy a bottle of water so he can find the hole in his inner tube.

[alansmurphy]

Emergency pound?

Emergency pound?

 

I want your kind of emergencies!

 

[s_lim]

The bare minimum…

The bare minimum…

• Winter rides: a phone in the right-hand pocket, wallet & housekey in the left 
• Winter/Spring training runs: the above & a powerbar, only if there’s group consensus that we’re not stopping 
• Summer:  the above & maybe 1 or 2 gels in the left, and a packaway gilet in the middle pocket (was a lifesaver in Spain last May, when descending).

I hate loading my jersey with crap, that’s what a saddlebag is for, and it contains a tube, levers, gas pump, spare cylinder and emergency £1.

I don’t understand why people load their pockets with food in the winter, especially if you’re training. 

 

[Kapelmuur]

I used to stuff everything

I used to stuff everything into my jersey pockets, then I saw a sideways on photo of me off the bike and I looked like the Hottentot Venus.

Now everything is on the bike, the machine may look like it’s embarking on a round the world tour but I have the ‘bella figura’.

 

[SingleSpeed]

Simontuck wrote:

 I rarely find a tyre that I can’t get on and off without levers and thats from mtb and kids bike tyres right through to 23mm road tyres. It’s all about the technique and having really calloused thumbs!!

I once worked in a bike shop, had some bloke apoplectic with rage that after his childs bike was serviced both tyres were replaced and then getting a puncture and being unable to remove the said tyre we fitted that the tyre on his bike was clearly the wrong size, trading standards, not fit for purpose, inconvenience of having to back to store , snapped 6 tyre levers we’d be taken to court blah blah.

As he’s prattling on at the front counter I’d worked the bead around the rim and popped it off got a new tube and put it back on the desk…His face was picture and it was telling his wife and boy both had sheepish yet resigned face as if this was the blokes normal way of going about things.

[dottigirl]

wycombewheeler wrote:

wycombewheeler wrote:

nothing has a fixed location…

Awavey wrote:

I dont really have fixed pockets for things…

What chaos is this?  How do you know if you’ve got everything, if it doesn’t have a fixed location?

Awavey wrote:

…pump goes on the frame, but I might bag it up now as I realised that actually yeah it does get alot of crud off the road and might not work when I need it if I leave it like that.

Yeah, this I would highly recommend. 

A couple of years ago, I went out to watch the RideLondon waves come off Hammersmith flyover. 

Six people stopped with mechanicals. None had a functional pump. The two that carried a pump discovered it was bust. Another guy had gas but hadn’t used it before and came nowhere near to inflating his tyres (it was amusing how fast he went from smug to contrite). 

Luckily, I had my mini pump in my jersey pocket. Despite what anyone’s read in my naughty stories (), it’s never seen so much action.

[Awavey]

I dont really have fixed
I dont really have fixed pockets for things except the middle pocket tends to be soft stuff like gloves/gillet/cap/armwarmers only as yeah I do agree if you bounce off on hard things, theyll tend to hurt more on your spine.But left or right side I have things like phone, keys (not in the same pocket though), lip balm, inhaler,gel,cereal/protein bar. money I put in the saddlebag, pump goes on the frame, but I might bag it up now as I realised that actually yeah it does get alot of crud off the road and might not work when I need it if I leave it like that.

[Simontuck]

OH, I know this is a week old

OH, I know this is a week old thread but I want to play!

Left pocket: small pump, rain jacket or warmers depending on the time of year. food wrappers also go in here unless I have a winter jersey on, then they get tucked in the sleeve.

Middle pocket: spare tube, or tubes, any other layers that I can squeeze in if needed. Sometimes put a cafe lock in here or swap contents with left pocket apart from pump that always stays in the left pocket.

Right pocket: Phone in clear pocket with any cards or money that I might need, orbitkey keyring which holds and protects sharp bits of keys from sticking in me!, plus food.

I used to have a saddlebag, but I’ve found that I really don’t need it. Can’t even remember where I put it actually! Same with levers, I rarely find a tyre that I can’t get on and off without levers and thats from mtb and kids bike tyres right through to 23mm road tyres. It’s all about the technique and having really calloused thumbs!!

[TypeVertigo]

Personally, I would avoid
Personally, I would avoid using the center jersey pocket for anything hard. Land on your spine in an endo, and that mini pump in your center pocket can spell instant paralysis.

Tools and tubes always on the bike, either in a saddle bag, or mounted to frame as with a mini pump.

Left pocket – wallet in ziplock sandwich bag, keys, sunscreen on longer rides
Center pocket – my rain jacket, a bulky Sugoi Zap hardshell
Right pocket – waterproof phone, granola bars, wet wipes

There are instances of riders whose wallets have gotten snatched away by local thugs in my country, though. When I bike commute to work I usually put my wallet inside my panniers.

[sw600]

Man of Lard wrote:

Man of Lard wrote:

with a couple of tightly rolled plastic fivers)

Jesus that’s a bit blatant, I thought we were trying to clean up the sport?

[Author]

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