What's in your bag?

[Zen]

Owlie yo kill me. I'm always concerned of the bike shop guy finding my tampon.

Guys know by now that women use tampons.

[Owlie]

Unless it's like the 15-year-old kid the LBS at home employs, largely for sales but they're teaching him some of the mechanical stuff too. In which case, well, he needs to learn this stuff anyway. No one ever died of embarrassment. (And if I take my bike to the shop, the bag comes off anyway.)

[ny biker]

Guys know by now that women use tampons.

I'd rather have some guy at the LBS find my tampon than be caught without when I need it.

And since they have no need to look in my seat bag, it serves them right if they snoop around and find something that freaks them out. Which is another reason to pack that headless doll..

[OakLeaf]

Just the normal stuff.

Tube, CO2 inflater, two cartridges, patch kit, Topeak Alien II multi-tool (everything you could ever conceivably want, weighs a ton, but good for the boonies), tire levers, brake cable, derailleur cable, three links of chain, master link, Epi-Pen, emergency blanket, retractable cable lock.

That's it. Back-up mini-pump lives on my frame, everything else goes in the jersey pockets.

[HipGnosis6]

My seat bag contains: patch kit, tire levers, small folding bike multi-tool thingy (given to me by a friend of the family when he got a fancier one), a $10 bill, a couple of bus tickets, a few bandaids, and some tiny packs of neosporin appropriated from the first aid kit at work. There's space for my keys, but it's rare for me to actually put them in there.

[marni]

jersey pockets:
left- gu and chamois butter two packs of each
center- wallet with credit card, cash and a copy of drivers license for suplemental id
ight- cell phone and key to car parked in driveway so I can get at garage door opener and a cotton bandana for wiping, bracing, bandaging and whatever.

Underseat bag- two spare tubes, patch kit, CO2 inflation kit with 2 cartridges, two tire levers, Park multi tool, another spare gu and a church key in the shape of a bicycle.

Around the seat bag are two large elastic type bands as tourniquets, strapping the frame pump onto something as a brace strapping something around my waist or whatever and around my bike frame are a couple of spare velcro type straps., (ditto). In addition I carry a topeak frame pump and two bottles- one is always water which doubles for dumping on head, cleaning out scrapes and cuts.

as for getting my hands dirty chaning tires- I always wear black shorts so I can spit and sipe and then rinse with water.

My operating motto has always been three pockets- good to go. I did the cross country this way because we had adequate support every 2030 miles and I can always find a gas station or the like for anything else I need which is why I carry a low limit credit card and some cash.

marni

[sandra]

Very impressive Marni! You have it down to a science!

[marni]

Very impressive Marni! You have it down to a science!

LOL. thanks- the main reason is that I have enough difficulty hauling my own self around without hauling all sorts of other stuff around. Plus I figure I can always make do. Fortunately, tampons are no longer a necessary issue.

marni

[tulip]

Muirenn--you might want to pack your seatbag with confetti. Whoever opens it will have some 'splainin to do.

Or you could put one of those pop-out snakes in and make the culprit scream and pee in their pants. That would work, too.

[owlice]

"After that I put a big Super Plus in there.

Haven't caught him since. "

Oh, that's great! Maybe you need a headless doll, too. (Geez, how rude of the guy to go through your seatbag. Too bad you didn't have a set mousetrap in there.)

I usually have two bags on my bike. Seatbag holds the usual: spare tube, CO2 dispenser and tubes, multitool, tire levers, and I think there's a little patch kit in there, too.

I have a ginormous handlebar bag which holds all kinds of stuff, but usually paper towels, lubricant, disposable gloves, a couple of bungee cords, bungee netting, Band-aids in several sizes, gauze, Bactine wipes, Neosporin, moist towelettes ("Moist Towelettes" strikes me as either a great or horrible name for a band; can't decide which. Or porn star twins.), batteries (AA and AAA), mini lights (one white, one red, just in case), and in the other zippered compartment, trail mix, a couple of Luna bars, reflector bands, and when I'm riding, my phone, keys, wallet, and sometimes a spare bottle of water.