Hi all,
This is one of those newbie questions and I beg your pardon in advance.
For muni, what do you take with you to make sure that your ride is not ruined by some simple oversight, or simple mechanical problem? As I try to imagine my ride and what could prevent a rewarding experience I plan for the possiblity of a flat by taking a pump, tire levers, tube and patch kit. I also take an allen wrench for all allen heads (including cranks), an energy bar and H20, and perhaps a camera. What have I forgotten without becoming a pack mule? What should I leave in the car for back-up?
Alien Multitool (has two tyre levers and pedal spanner built in)
Crank Nut Key and Spare Nut (or replace std crank bolt with self-extracting crank bolts)
24-26" quick fit inner tube (so you don’t have to dismount the wheel)
Couple of spare pedal pins
Very small handpump with high and low pressure settings
Digital car tire gauge (Smaller than analogue)
When visiting the Lakes I also take the following packed into a CamelBack Mule bag:
3L water bladder usually packed full of ice cubes during summer
Wet weather top
Spare T / warm top
Ronhill Bikesters (assuming I’m not already wearing them)
Fruit & Kendal Mint Cake
Map and Compass (sometimes GPS with spare batts - don’t like getting lost)
Small Torch and Spare Batts
Medical Pack
Mobile Phone
Small Camera (usually digital)
Car Keys
Whistle
“Tmornstar” <Tmornstar.13eiz@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message news:Tmornstar.13eiz@timelimit.unicyclist.com…
>
> Hi all,
> This is one of those newbie questions and I beg your pardon in
> advance.
>
> For muni, what do you take with you to make sure that your ride is not
> ruined by some simple oversight, or simple mechanical problem? As I try
> to imagine my ride and what could prevent a rewarding experience I plan
> for the possiblity of a flat by taking a pump, tire levers, tube and
> patch kit. I also take an allen wrench for all allen heads (including
> cranks), an energy bar and H20, and perhaps a camera. What have I
> forgotten without becoming a pack mule? What should I leave in the car
> for back-up?
In my tool pocket at the moment:-
spanner + crank remover
little screwdriver cos I was messing with my computer + back lights.
puncture kit + levers
mini pump
compass - I ride in the woods in the dark a lot where a compass is pretty
essential.
weeny waterproof
food for any long rides - muesli bars, seem the same as energy bars to me
and cost half as much
little laminated map of the trails near Dorking cos that’s where I ride
most.
spoke key - but only because I don’t 100% trust the home made wheel I’m
riding at the moment.
plus in the winter and at night:
extra top of some kind
lights
plus if I’m going somewhere like really scary, micro first aid kit
plus always some water in the camelbak.
If you want to save weight / pack space, learn to remove a tyre without tyre
levers and don’t bother with a crank spanner, just make sure your cranks are
tight before you ride.
Wow, Noel, would you call yourself paranoid? Just kidding!
On my regular 6 mile muni ride I only take the following:
Patch kit from Target (includes tire levers)
Blackburn pump (not too small, not too big)
Allen wrench (6mm)
Spoke wrench (Pedro’s w/ 3 sizes)
If I’ll be out longer (in addition to above):
Crank nut wrench
6" adjustable wrench (for pedals, bearing housing, and seat bolts)
About 3’ of duct tape wrapped around piece of pencil
Oh yeah, and a TIG welding setup in case I snap a seatpost or break the
frame!
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 06:39:13 -0600 “Noel.Holland”
<Noel.Holland.13gdn@timelimit.unicyclist.com> writes:
>
> For Muni I normally take:
>
> Alien Multitool (has two tyre levers and pedal spanner built in)
> Crank Nut Key and Spare Nut (or replace std crank bolt with
> self-extracting crank bolts)
> 24-26" quick fit inner tube (so you don’t have to dismount the
> wheel)
> Couple of spare pedal pins
> Very small handpump with high and low pressure settings
> Digital car tire gauge (Smaller than analogue)
>
> When visiting the Lakes I also take the following packed into a
> CamelBack Mule bag:
> 3L water bladder usually packed full of ice cubes during summer
> Wet weather top
> Spare T / warm top
> Ronhill Bikesters (assuming I’m not already wearing them)
> Fruit & Kendal Mint Cake
> Map and Compass (sometimes GPS with spare batts - don’t like
> getting
> lost)
> Small Torch and Spare Batts
> Medical Pack
> Mobile Phone
> Small Camera (usually digital)
> Car Keys
> Whistle
>
>
> –
> Noel.Holland - --------------------------------
>
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Tmornstar <Tmornstar.13eiz@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
> For muni, what do you take with you to make sure that your ride is not
> ruined by some simple oversight, or simple mechanical problem? As I try
First aid kit. Something small and compact that will allow you to plug
leaks in your skin,strap up a twisted joint and keep a casualty warm if
its serous rescue situation. Typicaly my trail kit has fabic plasters,
setrile wet wipes for wound cleaning, paper hankies, latex gloves,
1/2 wound dressing pads with bandage, serile dressing and tape, triangular
bandage and foil blanket.It is a bundle little larger than a rolled up
pair of socks.
Most of these things have been used on
unicyclists at some time on previous trips. The bloodyist being Claires
head ( dressing pad, T-shirt, cycle gloves and foil blanket while waiting
for Ambulance) and Barry’s finger ( plasters, steri strips, paper hankies
and tape).
Depending on where you are going you might like to think about, map and
compass. Then for aded comfort think about, butt’r, sun cream, bug
repelant etc.
> What should I leave in the car
> for back-up?
More water, dry clothes ( if its wet) dry shoes ( what ever the weather).
sarah
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> Wow, Noel, would you call yourself paranoid? Just kidding!
Nah, the CamelBack kit only goes with me when I’m going up hills in the
Lakes or Highlands. It may seem a lot but it packs down small. The 3L of
water is for the walk up rather than the ride down. Seems daft taking water
up when you can stop at a burn halfway and take sip but after doing so and
then walking 400 yards further up stream to find a dead sheep rotting in the
water, you start to have different views. The rest of the kit is more for
safety than necessity. I lived most of my youth in the western Highlands
near Skye and then my 20’s in Cumbria and the thought of trying to explain
to the Mountain Rescue why I’m halfway up Helvelynn with a unicycle and
without at least a minimum level of safety kit gives me the shivers. I used
to work for one of the local MR team leaders when I was at the Barrow
shipyard and he’d never let me live it down if he found out. And you ain’t
serious about hills if you ain’t carrying a bar of Kendal Mint Cake
(chocolate covered of course).
Regards,
Noel
The GPS is usually used to try to find my car again. Although I have been
known to mount it on the uni occasionally, it’s very difficult to read
mounted under the seat and doesn’t get too good a reception - maybe I should
try to mount it onto a reeder handle?
> And you ain’t
> serious about hills if you ain’t carrying a bar of Kendal Mint Cake
> (chocolate covered of course).
One note: I have to disagree Here in the States it is a Hershey’s
Chocolate Bar. (I happen to live near the factory and have toured it at
least six times. If you ever go beware of the trash cans at the tour
exit!) A Hershey’s bar was found buried in the ice at the South Pole. I
don’t remember exactly but it was something like 50 years old.
Jeff
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>“yoopers” wrote in message: I assume you’ve installed a hitch on your uni
to tow the welder.
>> jeff d tuttle wrote: Oh yeah, and a TIG welding setup in case I snap a
seatpost or break the frame!
Come on guys lets be realistic here. No-one in their right minds carries a
TIG welder while riding a unicycle. You leave the welding unit in the car
and just carry a drum with 5 miles of extension cord and gasline.
>The GPS is usually used to try to find my car again. Although I have been
>known to mount it on the uni occasionally, it’s very difficult to read
>mounted under the seat and doesn’t get too good a reception - maybe I should
>try to mount it onto a reeder handle?
Or keep in your pocket, and just use it when off the unicycle.
Klaas Bil
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> On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 14:22:43 GMT, “Joe Marshall”
> <news@joemarshall.org.uk> wrote:
>
> >If you want to save weight / pack space, learn to remove a tyre without
tyre
> >levers
>
> How’s that done?
>
By being well ard.
I usually can’t do it but lots of people seem to be able to do it every
time. I think the trick is to let down the tyre and then roll the tyre off
the rim. Once you’ve got a little bit of tyre off it’ll be easy to get the
rest off.
Klaas Bil wrote:
> <Noel.Holland@btinternet.com> wrote:
> >The GPS is usually used to try to find my car again. Although I have been
> >known to mount it on the uni occasionally, it’s very difficult to read
> >mounted under the seat and doesn’t get too good a reception - maybe I should
> >try to mount it onto a reeder handle?
> Or keep in your pocket, and just use it when off the unicycle.
Yup, I keep my GPS in a pocket of my CamelBak with the antenna sticking
out. No problems with reception back there. I just download the tracks
to a PC or Psion 5MX for later analysis - if I got lost it’d be easy
enough to get out and check the location or follow the “breadcrumb”
trail. Just hope I don’t fall on my back - but it’d be a lot safer there
than attached to my uni.
Regards,
Mark.
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Roll the beads away from the edges of the rim to the centre ALL the way
round
The bead is then sitting in the deepest part of the rim so you will find
it easier to…
3)… roll the bead off the rim at one point and work round the wheel
This is harder on narrow kevlar-beaded tyres (kevlar doesn’t stretch as much
as steel)
and on some Downhill/Dual Slalom tyres with double beads.
Here in the States it is a Hershey’s