What do you carry and how do you carry it?

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Originally Posted by Trek420

nuthatch "I carry a teeny tiny Team Saturn cowbell - just for good luck. I know that's pretty silly but it makes a nice jingle going up hills!"

ooooh good idea, I have a teeny tiny Velogirls cow bell thanks to Lorri.

"Does anyone else carry a lucky charm?"

Yes I do. You'll be surprised I think.

Before ALC 3 a friend of mine gave me a pin of an angel on a motorcycle She couldn't find a bike angel. * But you know how our friends worry. But from any distance it's simply an angel on a bike. Hmmm, she does look a little like one of the gals on moto crew :cool: Anyway....

She said I was not to ride any faster than that pin could fly ;)

So....the angel is always on my under seat bag.

Yeah yeah I know probably sacriligeous to have an angel "watching my butt", my good freind is Wiccan, I'm Jewish and bat for the other team but it's worked so far :D Knock on wood. Must be one of those non denominational angels ;-)

The worst that's happened is the dreaded FU fall. Maybe get 2 more for my other bikes ;)

* and I just found one:

http://pinsaver.com/cart/results.cfm..._Categories=23

Says "wearing this pin may actually help keep your tires inflated!" And here I thought that was the Continentals.

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You do know that "knock on wood" is a reference to the cross ...?

Maybe I should wear the Golem pendant a friend brought me from Prague. I use it as a good luck charm when travelling. It only protects me from serious accidents while gladly letting my luggage get lost so I can go out shopping on the insurance money.

Or maybe this will be a way to use those cowbell earrings ... very lightweight, nice tinkly sound, but waaaayyy to uncool to actually wear. Anybody want half my pair?

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Originally Posted by bikeless in WI

Or maybe this will be a way to use those cowbell earrings ... very lightweight, nice tinkly sound, but waaaayyy to uncool to actually wear. Anybody want half my pair?

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Awww, nothing's uncool on a bike! Think about RAGBRAI - all kinds of crazy things on the road. Wear your earrings and your ride mates will always hear you coming up behind them!

bikeless in WI "You do know that "knock on wood" is a reference to the cross ...?"

thought it was a reference to my head? :rolleyes: but seriously folks

what I had always read of the origin agrees with what's on worldwidewords.org

Q: From Mike Gast: “What is the origin and true meaning of knock on wood or touch wood?”
A: To touch wood or knock on wood is a superstition action to ward off any evil consequences or bad luck, perhaps because of some recent action you’ve taken or untimely boasting about your good fortune (“I’ve never been in danger of drowning, touch wood”); it can also be a charm to bring good luck.
The origin is unknown, though some writers have pointed to pre-Christian rituals involving the spirits of sacred trees such as the oak, ash, holly or hawthorn. There is, I’m told, an old Irish belief that you should knock on wood to let the little people know that you are thanking them for a bit of good luck. There’s also a belief that the knocking sound prevents the Devil from hearing your unwise comments. Others have sought a meaning in which the wood symbolises the timber of the cross, but this may be a Christianisation of an older ritual. It wasn’t always wood that was lucky: in older days, iron was also thought to have magical properties, and to touch iron was an equivalent preventative against ill-fortune.**
The phrase itself is relatively modern, as the oldest citation for the British version of the phrase, touch wood, that I can find dates only from 1899. The American equivalent knock on wood is roughly contemporary, with my first example from 1905.

** editors note, yet another reason to love steel!

seat bag: all my essentials like spare tube, CO2 pump, 3 cartridges, money, small rag, patch kit, small piece of cardboard (for a boot, if needed), multi tool

i have a small handlebar bag... a topeak that clips onto a holder that stays on the bike.... i always have the house key, ID, insurance card, national park pass and money, kleenex, wet nap wipes, chap stick and the little individual chamois butter packs.

when i go on an around the town/after work ride i'll throw in a bar just in case... my jacket if i don't have it one... my amber lense glasses after work (cuz i always have to change from my sunglasses)...

i'll also bring the camera a lot of times just in case (and always on long rides) and for long rides i also carry gatorade in a propel bottle in there rather than using my water bottles (don't like to put anything but water in my polar bottles!) sometimes... if it's cool/cold when it start out and i think it's going to warm up... i throw some fingerless gloves in there too.. then switch out if i need to! (i take everything but the kitchen sink! and it's a small bag! lol!)

if i have to remove my jacket or leg/arm warmers.. they go in the handlebar bag.. i HATE using my jersey pockets.. and only use them if i have to!

in the summer (it gets up to and over 120 degrees here) if we are just riding around the local area or into the national park on longer rides where there's no place to get water.. i'll take the camelback full of water and ice plus my water bottles (also full of water and ice).. the camel back is comfy enough.. but if i have my choice.. i go without it... but it's not uncomfortable or annoying to me.... i never take it on organized rides cuz i pay for them to supply me water (and food) at sag stops! :D

another thing i've done for my after work rides... if i just wear a sports bra or workout shirt that doesn't have a pocket for my ipod (the ONLY thing i like to put in my rear pockets)... i'll wear a small fanny pack to hold my ipod...

but for the most part.. everything goes in the handlebar bag!

Hey Caligurl - have you got a picture of your handlebar bag?

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Originally Posted by DeniseGoldberg

I'm with Nanci on this one. The Roadmorph is an amazing pump, very easy to use and very easy to pump tires up to the desired pressure (which I was never able to do with a standard frame pump or a mini-pump). The CO2 cartridges may be easier to use, but the disposal of the cartridges has always bothered me too.
--- Denise

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How do you carry the pump? I'd like to know how to mount it on the bike. Does it come with some kind of mount? I have a mini pump but was told by a fellow rider that it would never inflate my road bike tire to the desired pressure. So now I carry a CO2 pump. Every time I've flatted someone else has had a frame pump so I've never had to use my mini pump or my CO2 pump.

i don't have any available online to post with it on my ruby yet but have it on my dolce,,,

this is with the propel bottle sticking out (i can actually carry 2 propel bottles, if it want but they are standing up if i do that... i get rid of one then it can lay over like here:

http://www.caligurl.com/bikergurl/pi...20Tour%204.jpg

here's a view from the front (and all zipped up:

http://www.caligurl.com/bikergurl/pi...20Tour%205.jpg

it has a clip that attached to the handlebar.... and stays there unless you want to unscrew it and take it off... i just leave it cuz i always use my bag! it's also a fanny pack if you want... you unclip the front.. add the belt thingy they give you and if you are walking away from the bike... wear it as a fanny pack.. i've never done that.. it also comes with a BRIGHT yellow rain cover!

the clip has a HRM mount.. i loved it for the polar.. cuz instead of unstrapping the polar.. you just slid off the mount... the garmin has a quick release.. so i just click that off and leave the HRM mount there (i can get pics of that if you or anyone wants to see that!)

here's a link to topeak's site.. shows the bag.. inside and the clip! (i got mine at bike nashbar... on sale for 19.99!)

Roadmorph comes with a mount that you attach to the frame wherever you want- whever it doesn't interfere with waterbottles, etc. I put mine on the top tube. The downside of this is I have to remove the pump to put it in my bike rack for transport, but this is very easy, it just clicks in and out. It's small enough to carry in a Camelback, too.

Roadmorph easily inflates to the 90psi range. You can go higher with a little effort. It has a built-in gauge. Right now I am running my tires at 95psi after reading the tire pressure article, which there is a link to in the equipment section, I think.

Nanci

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Originally Posted by tjodit

How do you carry the pump? ...Does it come with some kind of mount? I have a mini pump but was told by a fellow rider that it would never inflate my road bike tire to the desired pressure.

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Nanci already mentioned the mount that comes with the pump. I have mine on the most sensible tube based on which bike I am riding. And I do have a pump on each bike (because I would rather not have to remember what tools I need to grab before heading out)... I did talk to someone whose LBS contacted Topeak to get extra mounts so they could move the pump from bike to bike.

I have easily pumped tires to over 100 psi with the RoadMorph.

--- Denise

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Originally Posted by caligurl

i don't have any available online to post with it on my ruby yet but have it on my dolce,,,

this is with the propel bottle sticking out (i can actually carry 2 propel bottles, if it want but they are standing up if i do that... i get rid of one then it can lay over like here:

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Thanks Caligurl for the info and the photos. :)

you're welcome (i hate when i discover typos after the fact! :mad: )