Hello fellow gearheads. I was looking at my emergency toolkit today and was wondering what everyone else carrys and what experiences lead you to it
For me it's
Blue loctite for when my pedal chain wants to snap at the master link. These things happen,but I've found blue loctite makes a pretty great semi permanent patch up
A spare tire and tube,I actually salvaged this from the curb on trash day. Someome was throwing away a perfectly good bike because the rim was bent in about 12 different places.
Pliers, 10 and 15mm wrench sets and a very shoddy air pump that takes about 20 minutes of hard hand work to get a tire to about 30/psi.
The loctite is a recent addition,I had woken up late for work and had to move my tire back to tighten up my drive chain. I've never extended a chain before, I've always lucked out and they just fit. Well today I decided "okay in 30 minutes I'm going to add three links to this chain"
I realized halfway through I did it completely wrong. Hurried to try and fix it, and I was satisfied to take it to work. Wouldn't you know it,right before I pull into work a small hill where I had to pedal to start up proved too much for the shoddy workmanship and snapped it right off. In my best mcguyver impression I walked to lowes and bought some loctite and I'll be damned if it didn't work like a charm. As I figured it,I really just needed to get the thing moving to get the engine going.I have a coaster break as my "oh my god I'm going to die" emergency break and calipers as a primary.I did a couple stiff test breaks because you know,who doesn't want to know if it's going to hold- and it's still holding up.the chains master link is FUBAR, so loctite will have to do until a trip to the bike shop but I believe in the blue magic.
For me it's
Blue loctite for when my pedal chain wants to snap at the master link. These things happen,but I've found blue loctite makes a pretty great semi permanent patch up
A spare tire and tube,I actually salvaged this from the curb on trash day. Someome was throwing away a perfectly good bike because the rim was bent in about 12 different places.
Pliers, 10 and 15mm wrench sets and a very shoddy air pump that takes about 20 minutes of hard hand work to get a tire to about 30/psi.
The loctite is a recent addition,I had woken up late for work and had to move my tire back to tighten up my drive chain. I've never extended a chain before, I've always lucked out and they just fit. Well today I decided "okay in 30 minutes I'm going to add three links to this chain"
I realized halfway through I did it completely wrong. Hurried to try and fix it, and I was satisfied to take it to work. Wouldn't you know it,right before I pull into work a small hill where I had to pedal to start up proved too much for the shoddy workmanship and snapped it right off. In my best mcguyver impression I walked to lowes and bought some loctite and I'll be damned if it didn't work like a charm. As I figured it,I really just needed to get the thing moving to get the engine going.I have a coaster break as my "oh my god I'm going to die" emergency break and calipers as a primary.I did a couple stiff test breaks because you know,who doesn't want to know if it's going to hold- and it's still holding up.the chains master link is FUBAR, so loctite will have to do until a trip to the bike shop but I believe in the blue magic.
