In my relentless pursuit to be both prepared and reasonable light and compact, let’s review the repair kit I will be bringing on my next cycling tour. We’ll be on loaded gravel/touring bikes on mostly paved trails. No one is running tubeless. There are both Shimano and Sram drivetrains, 9-12 speed drivetrains, rim brakes, and disc brakes. We won’t be in the middle of nowhere so if we need a new tire or shifter cable I think with some extra miles we could manage to get replacements. I will pack the following into a storage bottle in the 3rd bottle cage under my downtube:
Daysaver Essential-8 with tire lever
Additional tire levers
Wolf Tooth chain plier with disc rotor truing wrench, valve core tool, and chain pin tool
Mini Leatherman tool with small needle nose pliers, knife, tweezer
5mm to 1/4" driver adapter for Essential 8 with the following extra bits - 1mm, 1.5mm, Torx 10, 15, 20, 30, small and large phillips, flathead, 10mm hex, 12mm hex, 14mm hex, extra long 3/4/5/6mm hex bits
Shimano hollow-tech preload bolt driver tool (3d-printed)
S&S lockring wrench with pedal wrench, titanium (very light)
fiberspoke dyneema emergency spoke and spoke wrench
Phil Stein emergency cassette lockring tool
Extra quick links for chains 9-12 speed, shimano & sram
Neutron emergency brake bleed kit
patches for butyl and TPU tubes
Portable Di2 charge adapter (USB-C to Shimano)
Extra mini SRAM battery
SRAM battery charger
Heavy duty thread and curved needle for emergency sidewall repair and fixing torn gear or bags
tape: gorilla, electrical, helicopter
chain lube, small container phil wood grease, small container loctite
Tire boots
Extra frame mounting bolts (bottle cage bolts, rack bolts, etc…)
Adam’s HAT (emergency hanger alignment tool)
Zip ties
Carried in handlebar bag: pump (electric), spare tubes
Any suggestions? Thoughts?
