Real Life Tool Kit

By Brad Quartuccio

Most articles describing tool kit contents seem to want you to carry everything necessary to shop-tune your bicycle and then some, completely missing the point of the roadside repair. This is a situation ruled by necessity; the goal is to ride rather than walk, not tune your bike for race-day. Kits vary between rides and riders as much as bike choice but should follow the basic tenet of prioritizing the consequences and likelihood of potential failures, and the relative pain of walking home from where it may occur.

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