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I carried a pretty comprehensive tool roll for a while, but it was just too heavy to lug around all the time.
Now just puncture repair kit.
A Stop & Go kit and one of these with a bunch of refills.
Also a little mini bicycle pump in case the CO2 fails to get to pressure. ____________________ 2007 CBF1000-ABS - Commuter heaven | 1994 CBR600FR - Awaiting defibrillation |
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You have to factor in the Laws of Murphey.... it he' devious, and basically the more tools and spares you try to carry to try and cover ANY possible eventuality.. the more devious Murphey will get to find the scenario you HAVEN'T thought of or got the bits to fix...
So he gets you either stranded at the side of the road with no way to fix the problem, cos he out-witted you.... or he gets you stranded at the side of the road, with a big box of tools and spares, STILL unable to fix the problem, but a heck of a lot more frustrated trying to!
Pays your money and take your chances... Murphey ALWAYS gets his cut!
Usually literally, so carry elasto-plast, and or first aid kit, as first course, before spares and tools to fix bike!
Competition experience... you can fill the boot of the tow-car with spares and tools.... BUT if all goes well (and in my case rarely did!) you shouldn't need it... if it dont? Well its pretty much down to pot-luck whether you will be able to do anything on the spot about whatever mechanical calamity has struck... so be prepared to pack up and go home... which OTR means that AA card and mobile-phone.
OTHERWISE, its down to prevention before cure.
Eg, your gear-change circlip issue. Accepting that the circliups are going to pingfluckit off the shaft and need top be replaced is NOT really a solution to much. Remember murphey... you carry spare circlips he'll just find something else to break for you, leaving you with a hand-full of circlips scratching your head.
Solution to that one, is to think, "Well, the circlips shouldn't keep pinging off... so why are they?" poke and prod, clean the circlip groove of crud, make sure you are fitting circlip the right way round, maybe even check the end-=float of the shaft they are on, and work backwards into the bowls until you find and fix the worn thrust washer or whatever that is the 'root-cause' of THAT problem.
PREVENTATIVE Maintenance!
You do some. You do some more, and if you are chucking bike into the bowls of competition, before looking for more than standard you make sure you have all you should 'as' standard, and the bike is effectively 'as new' as you can make it before you begin.
Murphey will still be at work... b-u-t... you will have done as much as you might to vex him, and you hopefully have already given him his 'cut' in all the preventative workx done, and left him shrugging thinking "Well, I wasn't going to break that anyway... but hey ho, I've given you a Sunday afternboon of hassle.... get on with it... let him fret over the fact he's done all this work, and nowts broke, so was it really worth it!" (YES IT IS, btw, unless you would preffer to give murphey his cut at the side of the road, in the middle of know-where, in the pigging rain, with a swiss-army pen-knife and a roll of insulation tape! Its a LOT nicer to do it at home, in reach of a kettle, I find)
In competition, like trials, well, you are setting out with the anticipation that stuff if gonna break. Trials started as 'Reliability - Trials; that was kind of the point and the competition to be had.
In my case, bent handlebars and broken brake levers may actually be expected... and I dont think I am the only one.... it was quite common in years past for folk to potter onto course with 'spare' brake/clutch levers clamped to the frame infront of the air-box, so that they could swap the lever on-course if they busted one...
But back to the preventative; what they didn't do, was carry universal emergency 'clamp-on' cable nipples to fix a snapped cable on course... if the cable was a bit frayed or sticky, they did preventative, and the nipple would be re-soldered before the event; the cable lubed properly adjusted and or replaced, so it DIDN'T break on them, on course. (hopefully!)
So, like trials itself its all a bit of a balancing act; and yes, setting out to an event, there would be a cuple of boxes in the car boot of 'ready spares'. Typically a spare innner tube for both front and back wheels, cos of possible puncture. A couple of spare levers cos likely to get broken. Certainly a couple of spare split-links incase an R-Clip pinged and knowing the scenario only too well, likelihood you'd not know where to find it again, and if it went, by the time you found out you'd probably need the link-plate as well, if not the whole link, cos even if you found it, probably be bent.
BUT, pocketing a couple of spare split-links is not substitute for pulling the chain before the event, hot-dip cleaning and greasing, and then threading it back on, paying careful attention to the chain tension when you do, and making it 'as new as you can' before you start to give as little opportunity for the failure in the first place.
And you are back to the diemah.. what DO you take? What COULD possibly go wrong... and remember Murphey always gets his cut.
And if there is a known problem and likely failure to be had, like a pinging cir clip... you DONT fill your pockets with 'spares' and wait for it to happen... you ask why it might, and what you could do to stop it, and as said, clean the circlip groove, or fix the thrust washer on the shaft its on, or even go belt and braces and start getting devious with lock-wire to STOP it coming off....
Then, On-The-Road... you shouldn't be setting out with the expectation that ANYTHING is going to break or need fixing... if you are.. don't set out! Stay home, with kettle and FIX it..... ALL you should need on the road IS that AA card and a fully charged mobile phone, cos Murphy is still watching over your shoulder. ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
Current Bikes:'Honda VF1000F' ;'CB750F2N' ;'CB125TD ( 6 3 of em!)'; 'Montesa Cota 248'. Learner FAQ's:= 'U want to Ride a Motorbike! Where Do U start?' |
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Stop and go plug kit. Cable repair kit. Spare fuses. Enough tools to remove either wheel. Spare lever (couple of ready-bent ones on the VFR that still work, a single one on the bullet becausae they are interchangeable. Length of fuel hose in the handlebar for syphoning purposes.
I'll take a lot more if I'm doing a protracted journey.
Always tools to remove a wheel because I'm often riding as part of a group and someone can give you a lift to a tyre place carrying a wheel. If you can sort a problem out without resorting to recovery, it will almost always be much quicker and less hassle. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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A phone with the policy number and breakdown company in it. ____________________ Mpd72: I can categorically say i’m Brighter than that, no matter how I come across on here.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 35 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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