Carrying Tubeless Repair Parts - Reducing Bulk

Can't help but think there might have been a way to avoid this situation ?

Intiguing, but do you have to remove your bars to get at the contents?

I carry inner tubes , Allen keys , patches,tyre levers , CO2 in a small under saddle bag. The items in the stem are a backup but it would only take 5 mins to take off the handlebars and put back on. Where do most people keep emergency money safe , secure and dry ?

Money is plastic now so dampness isn't a problem...

PP

I use my phone for nearly all purchases now. I can't even remember when I last used a card. They even accepted contactless on the bread stall in the high st last week.

snsb wrote:

I carry inner tubes , Allen keys , patches,tyre levers , CO2 in a small under saddle bag. The items in the stem are a backup but it would only take 5 mins to take off the handlebars and put back on. Where do most people keep emergency money safe , secure and dry?

I carry a roll of sovereigns in my seat tube. I can ride across continents knowing that I'm carrying a widely accepted method of payment. And they can be used to bribe the guards.

Sounds very inconvenient to me. Plus self adhesive patches age and dry out so unless yours are old style glued patches, leaving them in the stem for any length of time without regularly inspecting them may mean when you need them they are useless.

I just carry a debit card and cash in my phone wallet. Can't see the point of having to remove your handlebars or stem to get at them....each to their own though.

PP

And therein lies a big problem with tubeless at road pressures. Many punctures don't seal at 80psi, especially larger ones and you are down to around 30psi with sealant sprayed everywhere before they seal. You pump it back up and the plug of sealant blows out. CO2 will invariably blow it up to a pressure that will blow it out. So you need a tyre worm, and applicator tool, some more sealant and a pump/ CO2.

If you are of the 'always carry a spare tube' brigade then you need even more gear. You need really strong tyre levers, and a spare inner tube. I would caution against a Conti Supersonic which are paper thin - great because they take up hardly any room to carry, but if you need tyre levers to get a tubeless tyre back on the rim (which many do, and can be quite a battle even at home in the workshop with warmth, coffee and no rain), there is a very strong chance of nicking any tube, even more so with a Supersonic. So your emergency tube is potentially useless. I wouldn't use a Supersonic unless I knew I could get the tyre on the beads without using tyre levers. Been ther and done that with clinchers and ditched the SuperSonics as spares...

It all comes down to how often you puncture. I get one or two a year, riding in all conditions. So for me, the extra faff of a tubeless set up not working isn't worth the hassle. Even more so when rims and tyres aren't all designed to the same standard thus some combinations are nigh on impossible to mount. I'll stick to two normal tyre levers, a spare tube, extra patches and boot and a mini pump. Never failed me, and a five minute repair every time.

PP

Thats odd. Ive had 2 causes to use my Lezyne tool and none of the issues you've faced. First one plugged perfectly, 2nd failed to seal because the cut in the tyre was C or J shaped and I dont believe any plug would have sealed ir. Sealed enough to limp home at low pressure then fixed with a patch on the inside.

It stands to reason that a tool designed to pierce a tyre is going to threaten rim tape. Thats basic physics.

I reckon many people don't understand that you want to poke the spike through at a very shallow angle rather than straight in perpendicular to the tyre surface....

PP

Dynaplug micro pro is a beautiful piece of engineering. You should have no rim tape issues due to the rounded ends.
The stans dart gun sounds useful too.

Surely that is designed for mtb tyres and not road? Bit unfair to blame the company if you are using the wrong tools.

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hawkinspeter wrote:

I carry a dynaplug racer, spare tube, mini pump, CO2 cannister plus injector, tyre levers, minitool, chain tool, spare links and a park tool tyre boot. Definitely too much as I rarely use any of that. I did give the spare tube to a punctured cyclist near Keynsham the other day, so I'm glad that I've bothered carrying it unused for so long.

Thank you. You sound like you also need to reduce the bulk Do you think my pared down list sounds OK or too risky?

Sounds fine to me. Ultimately it depends on how lucky you are and what risk you're happy to accept. Personally I'm always thinking in terms of how things go wrong (I work with computers) and it really bugs me if it's something that's easy to fix with the right tool and foresight.