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Spares & tools - what do you carry and how?
What spares / tools do you all take with you on a ride?
How do you carry it? Saddle bag? Pocket caddy? Loose in a jersey pocket? Other?
Does it vary by ride?
I carry 2 x CO2 cartridges, a mulitool with built in chain breaker and CO2 inflator, 3 x tyre levers (my wheel/tyre combo is a PITA to remove/refit), 1 x quick link, 1 x spare tube and a couple of glueless patches in a Leyzene Road Caddy saddle bag. Now that I'm tubeless I also carry a tubelsss repair kit in my pocket as it won't fit in the caddy.
It bothers me that I don't have a normal pump so I'm shopping for the "best" one... but that got me thinking about what I should be carrying and how - I figure the best way to determine this is experience, so I'm asking for yours 
I figure some of you will have been cycling since before I was born, and some of you will have started yesterday, so I wonder if we'll get a wide range of answers...
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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I saw that. Apparently it tells your phone the pressure in your tyre. That's not justifiable. The £55 had to be prized from my fist.
I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of stuff people carry around with them.
That's inflation.
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