OK, winter 200.
No spare clothes- I'm not going to get wetter, drier, or colder, as long as I keep moving. If it all goes horribly wrong I'll get cold. I think I'll survive. I actually bought new socks from a garage on boxing day.
2 tubes, pump & tyre levers. I can make boots, (I know that loyalty card will come in handy at some point) I'm not going to piss about repairing a puncture so as soon as the second tube is used I'm heading for a station.
No food- there's shops and I'm fairly well fat adapted. I won't need to eat till 50km anyway. I might buy a spare chocolate bar when I stop. (Actually I went for a 3 pack of Lee's Scottish Tablet as you can't get it down here- although I bet they have it in Corby).
No other spares. Disk brakes mean a spoke going my brakes will still work. I'm hardcore (my routes are flat) enough to single speed if need be. I couldn't change a cable at the roadside anyway as they're internally routed.
Multitool, though only for tightening seatposts, it never occurred to me to see if it had a torx to move the brake pads in. I'll know better next time.
I bought lube as I was
riding through floods and the chain sounded, erm, like a hungover Smith.
Spare batteries. I really want a dyno front wheel on this bike. Funds are not permitting yet.
Mini torch. For finding and swapping the goddam batteries.
Two bottles of fizzy water. One will still be full when I finish. The other might be topped up with orange juice or lemonade or relentless or water, depending how I feel en-route.
Anker for the phone & gps.
Purse with spare micro USB cable, cash & cards & vitamin I.
Like this:
That's it. Anything else is just ballast, and I already have enough
arse.