What's in your bag?

[pooks]

One of my favorite time wasters is to cruise through flickr's "whatsinyourbag" collection:

http://flickr.com/search/?q=whatsinyourbag&w=all

What's in YOUR bag? Messenger bag, saddlebag, bar bag? What do you consider vital, what do you take for fun, for luck?

[betagirl]

In my messenger bag on a typical day:

Spare tube
Tire levers
U Lock
Cable
2 pens
1 pencil
A blinky red light for night time
Keys
2 dimes
1 quarter
Bra and underwear
Cleat covers
Various books
Sometimes an iBook
Glasses case
Stick of deodorant

It's been known to have:

Half a watermelon
A bag of apples
Jug of juicy juice
Cucumbers
Towels
Overnight kit
Hairbrush
Various clothing
Beer

[mimitabby]

in my bike bag i have
a tube kit
fruit leather
small first aid kit
yellow glasses
cool wipes
kleenex pack
spare socks
rubber gloves
pump
tire tools
pliers
lip stuff with 30 sunscreen
11 dollars

cable lock on handlebars

[Tater]

Oh, how fun! I'll play.

I commute with a Jansport backpack and this is what it holds/held this morning:

- repair kit for the bike ie, tubes, pump, patch kit, multi-tool, etc. This all gets stuffed in the right side pocket. (Can't do an under the seat thing, risk of getting it swiped.)
- left side pocket holds deoderant, face wipes and anti-chaff cream.
- top pocket has sunglasses in their case, keys, allergy meds, lip goo and an assorted amount of loose change. Oh and my cell phone.
- front pocket holds work id badge, later holds my RoadID/bike lock key.
- second pocket holds Palm Pilot, and the parts of my lunch I don't want squished.
- main pocket holds outfit for the day, including shoes, the parts of lunch that are Rubbermaid-ed and can get squished, and my desk water bottle. I also stuff my Kryptonite lock in here somehow.

This all seems so much and so heavy, but it actually isn't.

[Pedal Wench]

Asthma puffer
Crank Bros. micro pump
Tube
Levers
Sunscreen
Lip balm
Cell phone
Keys
ID
Money
Mini multitool
3 Gels
1 Powerbar

How's that all fit in that little bag????

[SouthernBelle]

In my saddle bag usually:

sunscreen
clifbar
patch kit
canned air (I have a pump too, just not in the bag)
air pressure gauge
key
lip balm
coupla allen wrenches

In my tiny bar bag:
cell
id
gum
money

[Tiffanie]

Hmmmmm, let's see if I can remember without going out and checking.

In my seat bag:
2 tubes
levers
multi-tool
2 valve adapters
extra allen wrenches
copy of DL/Emergency contacts in a ziploc
patch kit
keys

Handlebar bag:
lip balm
hair tie
small first aid kit/crash pack
fruit leather
sunblock
headlight
pepper spray
hand sanitizer
tissues
energy gel
protein bar(s)
sunglasses
OC Trails map
cell phone

[maillotpois]

Okay, at this point, I have decided I will be riding with Beta as she seems to carry food and beer!!

[Lise]

Hmmm, little saddle bag--spare tube, levers, CO2 cartridges, eye drops, lip balm, bandaids, lanolin wipes (free sample "for breastfeeding moms", but they're great for any chafed parts), great little foldup tool with hex wrenches and two screwdriver tips. Sport beans. Sunscreen stick. Hair thingy. $20 hidden somewhere.

Backpack/Timbuk2: hairbrush, antiperspirant, entire makeup thing (mascara, eye shadow, blush, eye liner, eyebrow pencil--one time I rode to work and forgot to put on any makeup--scary pale ), hair thingies, little first aid kit with everything you can imagine. Gestational age wheel (essential tool for a midwife), pens, reading glasses. If I'm using it to go to work, I'll also throw in wallet, phone, date book, change of clothes, washcloth in a ziplock bag with some Dr. Bonner's soap. Not to forget U-lock and cable. Some sort of treat.

But no beer.

[betagirl]

Okay, at this point, I have decided I will be riding with Beta as she seems to carry food and beer!!

You can fit quite a few cans of beer in a medium Timbuk2 messenger bag

[pooks]

Right now I have a basket on the back of my bike, and a little pouch on the front.

In the basket -- always -- water. If I'm going to Starbucks, there will be a case with a couple of books and/or my laptop in the basket. Otherwise, proably just water. (My water holder came off and we haven't put it back on yet.)

In the pouch--cellphone, iPod, keys, Burt's Bees lip shimmer. (Papaya color.)

Obviously I don't go far and don't need much!