What do you carry and how do you carry it?

**bcipam** · 03-03-2006, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by Nanci

I use those too! I have them in my Bento Box, with their little chains attached so they don't blow out on the ride on the rack. I put Jelly Belly Sport Beans in one, and Succeed Electrolyte Caps in the other. Refill as necessary!

Nanci

Nanci:

I just noticed ads for the Jelly Belly Sports Beans - how do you like them? Eating "candy" on a ride is right up my alley!!!!!

**nuthatch** · 03-04-2006, 03:30 AM

I love reading all the personal (but important!) things people bring - bibles, knitting, teabags (are these a first aid item, Corsair?). 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! Does anyone else carry a lucky charm?

**Nanci** · 03-04-2006, 03:56 AM

Bcipam, I love them! I carry them in the Trashy Cat zipper coin purse, in my Bento Box. I munch about one bag (100 calories) per hour. They have 60mg of Sodium, and 60mg of Potassium. That is fine in cool/warm weather, but would have to be supplemented on long hot rides. They also have a bit of vits C and E, 20% RDA. Can't say much for the nutritional value, they are made of sugar and corn syrup! But are tart, not sickly sweet. Anyway, a calorie is a calorie...They do a good job of keeping me fueled on 1-2 hour rides, but for longer rides I add in bars and choc milk. If you order them from Jelly Belly, the shipping charge is horrendous. I get them on eBay. They end up about $1/bag. Maybe more places carry them now, but I like the service from the eBay seller. They come in Orange and Lemon Lime. Kind of like Gatorade!

Nanci

**carimail** · 03-04-2006, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by nuthatch

I love reading all the personal (but important!) things people bring - bibles, knitting, teabags (are these a first aid item, Corsair?). 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! Does anyone else carry a lucky charm?

My Starbucks card is my lucky charm! I have a mini wallet just for cycling that has a photocopy of my driver's license with several emergency numbers on it, a $5 bill and my Starbucks card. It lives in my helmet wih my gloves when I'm not on the bike so it's always ready to go.

**carimail** · 03-04-2006, 02:07 PM

Why do some of you carry CO2 and a pump? I only carry 2 tubes, CO2 inflator and 2 cartridges. I wonder if I should be toting a pump as well?

**Nanci** · 03-04-2006, 02:50 PM

What if you flat more than twice? What if someone else flats and doesn't have a pump/CO2? What if your CO2 inflator falls into tiny bits when you go to use it? (Seen that happen!) What if you just want to top off your tires and don't have your floor pump? What happens to all those little CO2 cartridges when you're done?

You wouldn't believe how fast a Roadmorph can pump up a tire...

Nanci

**carimail** · 03-04-2006, 03:09 PM

Those are all good things to think about. I just followed hubby's example - perhaps I should start thinking for myself?

It will have to wait anyway, I'm in the red for bike stuff spending.

**DeniseGoldberg** · 03-04-2006, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by Nanci

What if you flat more than twice? What if someone else flats and doesn't have a pump/CO2? What if your CO2 inflator falls into tiny bits when you go to use it? (Seen that happen!) What if you just want to top off your tires and don't have your floor pump? What happens to all those little CO2 cartridges when you're done?

You wouldn't believe how fast a Roadmorph can pump up a tire...

Nanci

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.

Also - I recommend carrying patches in addition to your extra tubes. You never know when it's going to be a bad tire day.

--- Denise

**Nanci** · 03-04-2006, 03:29 PM

Plus, if you're really tricky, you can ease the part of the tube with the hole out without removing the tube, patch it, slip it back in (after checking for sharp things, of course!) and you're good to go! I love patches. They are _so_ easy. And extremely reliable, in my experience.

Nanci

**Trek420** · 03-05-2006, 05:59 AM

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

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

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.

**Duck on Wheels** · 03-05-2006, 10:55 AM

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

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

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.

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?

**nuthatch** · 03-05-2006, 11:46 AM

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?

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!

**Trek420** · 03-05-2006, 12:51 PM

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

thought it was a reference to my head?

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!

**caligurl** · 03-05-2006, 02:21 PM

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!

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!

**Trekhawk** · 03-05-2006, 09:41 PM

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

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