What's in your handbag?

[Ixion]

Have you got an open end on a frame tube you can poke a spare plug down ?

Or poke it down the end of the handlebars like a bar weight.

[F5 Dave]

Modern bikes are pretty reliable , we don't need to be as prepared as we once were.
The Uberfarter has heaps of luggage space. So I can carry

Jumper cables
Rope
Torch and flashing beacon thingie
Araldite
Vicegrips
Ring spanner set
Couple of selected sockets and a small T bar
6" 8" 10" adjustables
Screwdriver set
Electrical wire
baling wire
Linesmans pliers
Needle nose pliers
Side cutters
Allen keys
Tie downs
Duct tape
Electrical tape
Length of hose
puncture kit
tyre levers
Water
Juice
V
chocolate
peanuts
Assorted nuts and bolts
Fuses
Spare bulbs
Spare clutch cable
Spare oil

If going on a long trip I'll throw more stuff in

Ratty gets a subset of that , based on far I'm going. Plus a chain connecting link

And I always carry my Swiss Army knife.

Sheite! All these last years bike manufacturers have been slaving to shave 5/16th of a gram from the tire valve caps & there you go spoiling their hard work, or at least dismissing it as irrelevant.

They’ll lose hope & give up - we’ll all be stuck on 3 tonne chuffing Bmers.

Motu
Acerbis make a nice sparkplug coverall to stop it getting filthy & the threads mongered by tools mashing into them.

[Oscar]

Congrats on the 5000th post Motu

Yeah, I think a couple of 'em even made sense...

[Oscar]

Shit,I own a 2 stroke now,and keep leaving my sparkplug at home! Dunno if there's any room left in my Fox bumbag for a sparkplug.The bumbag is pretty heavy now,although I don't think it's got anymore in than what it was designed for,and it won't stay in place....and I can feel the weight as I move around on the bike - huge Tourtech panniers on a 230 smoker??

Jeez, I carried spark plugs round on my racing two smokers for years (4 PE175's, 2 IT200's, 2 YZ250's an RMX250 and a CR250) - I never used one of 'em!
Gold palladium plugs, ye cannae beat 'em...

[F5 Dave]

Gee I used to have a PE175. Can't remember ever using the word 'racing' in the same sentence.

[Oscar]

Gee I used to have a PE175. Can't remember ever using the word 'racing' in the same sentence.

Enduro & Hare Scrambles.
I had one of the first single shock PE's - the PE175Z - I loved it.
At any national enduro in the early eighties PE175T/X/Z prolly made up a third of the field.

[Motu]

Only because they were yellow - made it easier for the clean up crew to find....

[Oscar]

Only because they were yellow - made it easier for the clean up crew to find....

Little did I know at the time that all these National Enduros I entered were preparing me for a time later in life when I would be called upon to pilot an abandoned XLV oil tanker up a hill in National Park...

[F5 Dave]

This is where I hit the unsubscribe button, fings are gonna geet uggly.
:spudwave: bye