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Spare tyre weighs ~250g. Zip tie it to saddlepack for insurance.
Also, cranks could be fuxxored if they're coming loose and you rode on them. Double check 'em.
Have fun.
Oh, take enough food/coffee for the night/morning when nothing is open. Have a shit when you get the chance, don't leave it until 4am when nothing is open :) Don't use a Garmin 810.
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So I took my tyre. My cranks were fine.
Neither my riding partner nor I took any spokes, so he broke one. There's bugger all point me taking spokes, I'd probably ended up with a taco shell shaped wheel.
I took tubes obviously, and had a puncture when I took my bike out of the car.
I took quicklinks. Didn't need them
I did snap my seatpost. I had no spare. My riding partner in all seriousness said "I brought
some gaffer tape, do you want to try taping it on"Ho hum
graunch
So, Flatlands 600km this weekend for me. Never before have I been nervous about the LACK of hills on a ride. Really hoping that my riding pal has got his legs back because I'd like a decent kip on Saturday night, and I would like to finish at a reasonable time on the Sunday.
I finished Severn Across with a loose crank, that I had not noticed in the final stages and then it came loose again in the week. I tightened it and it seems fine now; really hoping I haven't damaged the splines and stored up trouble for the weekend.
As ever I am undecided about what spares to take. The fact that I saw a man with a blown out tyre last time is tempting me to take a tyre but the number of times I have ever needed a completely new tyre on a ride is zero.
Where is everyone else going this weekend?