carrying spanners

[Attitudeless Badger]

Well, the pompino has now arrived, and mighty fine it is too.  This is my first bike that doesn't have QR wheels, so I need to make provisions for wheel removal, in case of punctures out on the road.

Is the preferred course of action for such a bike to remove and change the inner tube in case of punctures, or to carry around a puncture kit and do it in situ?  Also, if I need to, is there an easy way of carrying spanners, ie can you get versions that can be easily attached to the frame via the bottle-mounts?

New bike, new questions, with any answers being much appreciated.....

[urban_biker]

I carry two spare tubes and a puncture kit - just in case. Normally I swap out a tube and then fix the punctured one at home. But on the odd occasion of puncture apocalypse I have needed to patch on the road. I carry a dumball type spanner so I can get the wheels off.

Patching wiothout removing the wheel is doable but its sometimes tough to find the hole.

[Majorbloodnok]

I carry a cheapo box spanner in a Brooks Challenge bag.........

oh, and wet wipes, latex gloves, S/A patches and levers.  Unfortuntaely a tube won't fit, so that goes in my pocket.

[Gattopardo]

Adjustable spanner.  Asda  draper value one £2

[Charlotte]

Everything you ever wanted to know about 15mm spanners, but were too afraid to ask  

[clarion]

I have found a nice black anodised ring/open spanner, longer than the one in Charlotte's thread there.  I carry it in my saddlebag.  I guess you could drill a couple of holes in the shank and attach it to bottle bosses.

[Greenbank]

Short stubby spanners look great, but can be nigh on useless if you did up your wheels with a gert big spanner at home and you just can't get enough leverage with a stubby one.

I just carry a spare 15mm ring spanner I had in the tool box. It lives in my toolbag, so much so that it's still in there despite me using the geared bike for the last 4 months.

[Feline]

If you want to carry tools on your frame you could always do what I have done. I have a 500ml water bottle (wide necked) that contains tube, patches, tyre levers, spanner, multitool, latex gloves, shower cap (to protect seat in mud) and baby wipes. My bottle is opaque so noone can see it isn't really a water bottle and get tempted to pinch it  

You can buy tool bottles but I could see no reason not to use one of my existing water bottles for this. Of course this does mean I can only carry one actual water bottle on my frame now.

[Manotea]

Short stubby spanners look great, but can be nigh on useless if you did up your wheels with a gert big spanner at home and you just can't get enough leverage with a stubby one.

I just carry a spare 15mm ring spanner I had in the tool box. It lives in my toolbag, so much so that it's still in there despite me using the geared bike for the last 4 months.

Yup, the stubby struck me as too small to be useful and as it happens, I lost mine before I had a chance to use it in anger (it jumped out of my bag when I wan't looking).

I've got a goldtec hub now so I'm spanner free nowadays, sniff.

[robgul]

I have a pair of spanners in the saddle-pack on my fixed - they are like the stubby things that Charlotte linked to ... I bought a couple of cheapo regular 15mm combos and cut the open end off with an angle grinder (and then tidied up the rough edges) to fit the bag (and I keep them in the fingers of one of the plastic gloves to stop them rattling against each other.

Yes they are short BUT judicious use of the foot gives some power to the leverage.

 Works for me.

Rob

[Zipperhead]

Short stubby spanners look great, but can be nigh on useless if you did up your wheels with a gert big spanner at home and you just can't get enough leverage with a stubby one.

As it's a pompino it will presumably have track ends, so won't need to be done up gorilla tight.  The wheel will stay put even if it's only done up fingertight because I forgot you're experimenting.

[Sergeant Pluck]

it will presumably have track ends, so won't need to be done up gorilla tight

What's your thinking there, Z?

I have track ends and I need them to be, if not gorilla, certainly adult orang-utan.

[Manotea]

it will presumably have track ends, so won't need to be done up gorilla tight

What's your thinking there, Z?

I have track ends and I need them to be, if not gorilla, certainly adult orang-utan.

He probably meant bell-ends, er, bell-tugs, er, chaintugs.

[Zipperhead]

it will presumably have track ends, so won't need to be done up gorilla tight

What's your thinking there, Z?

I have track ends and I need them to be, if not gorilla, certainly adult orang-utan.

Thinking? Sorry it was my lack of thinking - or at least a continuity break between grey mush and fingers.  I meant chain tugs.

[Biggsy]

For the weight weenie, an 'orrible cheapo dumbell multi spanner is lighter than just about anything else you can use for a 15mm nut, and fits in any small bag or pocket.  It might even last a few years if saved for roadside emergencies only.

[Clandy]

My kit comprises a micro-pump, inner tube, tyre levers, 15mm and 8mm spanners, punc ture kit, and a multi-tool. The stubby 15mm spanner came from Aldi.

[Charlotte]

Blimey.  You ever actually pumped up a tyre with that?

*boggles*

[Biggsy]

We don't want to know what else he does with it

[Clandy]

Blimey.  You ever actually pumped up a tyre with that?

*boggles*

It telescopes out.

[Attitudeless Badger]

Cheers folks, I knew the mention of spanners would generate a healthy response.  I like the sound of the "bottle toolkit", esp as checking on the bike earlier I have noticed that the saddle supplied is not fitted with rails or anywhere obvious to fix a bag onto.

[Charlotte]

Blimey.  You ever actually pumped up a tyre with that?

*boggles*

It telescopes out.

*impressed*

[Cudzoziemiec]

Cheers folks, I knew the mention of spanners would generate a healthy response.  I like the sound of the "bottle toolkit", esp as checking on the bike earlier I have noticed that the saddle supplied is not fitted with rails or anywhere obvious to fix a bag onto.

How can the saddle not have rails

[Tail End Charlie]

I too have just got a Pompino and the saddle supplied (On One's own) doesn't have rails and needs a special seat post aswell. I'm not too bothered as I intended swapping the saddle for my Brooks in any case.

[Cudzoziemiec]

So what does this rail-less saddle look like underneath? How does it attach?

Actually, I have seen a saddle without rails - it's on my son's bike-for-a-six-year-old. And even it has a kind of rails - plastic walls underneath the saddle, looking like, well, rails, rather than the normal rails which look like rods. What silly terminology we have!

[Greenbank]

google: pivotal saddle

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