touring tool kit

[half_empty1]

hi all,

what additional tools if any, do you take
when you tour abroad.

I normally don't bother with much else than:

standard toolkit,
air pump,
puncture repair kit,
gaffa tape,
electrical tape,
cable ties

am I missing anything that you have found handy to have at one time or another.

thanks

 

[mikeyw64]

a small tube of plastic metal.

 

[ScottyUK]

The obvious one missing is allen keys in case you need to remove any body work. I normally also take a couple of small racket ring spanners for the common bolts oh and a torch.

 

[robsbird]

The obvious one missing is allen keys in case you need to remove any body work. I normally also take a couple of small racket ring spanners for the common bolts oh and a torch.

does your standard tool kit not have them then...........8rfl@

 

[half_empty1]

I replaced the standard toolkits allen keys with ball ended type and spanners with some higher quality ones.

also replaced the toolkits pliers with a good multitool.

I have a torch. plastic metal is a good one

 

[ScottyUK]

does your slandered tool kit not not have them then...........8rfl@

errm nope!

 

[57grant]

Spare reg/rec
Spare levers (all 4) in case you fall off
spare kets
spare throtle cables
lengh of tube for syphoning petrol
spare bulb for headlight (legal requirement on most of continent)
Small tube of swarfega
spare oil for scottoiler or tin of chain lube
Small tin WD 40 or similar
Lighter
Duct tape
Lots of spare fuses
Visor cleaning cloth and spray or diluted fairy liquid
Spare ear plugs
microfibre cloth
second bike lock
i pad or similar to book hotels, check weather, find resturants etc
sat nav

Woman for use in nighttime

That should do it!

Good luck

Grant

 

[57grant]

PS if you need to borrow any of there items that you dont have just in case let me know and I will loan them to you for the trip

(the woman will probably say no so you will have to supply your own one!)

Enjoy

Grant 07876251906 mobile

 

[half_empty1]

I'm in my hotel room now on grimsel pass just near innertkirchen @tu*

thanks for the offer Grant, I do have most of what you mentioned apart from spare reg/rec, throttle cables, I was gonna bring my spare levers but didn't.

Done all the major passes I wanted to.

saturday,
north up petite st Bernard in good weather with full luggage and swmbo

sunday,
north up grand saint Bernard, furka to gletsch, grimsel to hotel near innertkirchen all in torrential rain with full luggage and swmbo

monday
a nice rest day looking around interlaken, grindelwald and thun in sunshine for a change

today (Tuesday)
a clockwise circuit with no luggage, just my other half on the back

susten in good weather
gotthard & tremola in good weather
nufenen in good weather

then the weather changed drastically as we got onto the furka towards gletsch, torrential rain, thick fog and gale force winds

furka to andermatt section closed off today

so up the grimsel back to the hotel

the journey back home starts tomorrow, with a stop over in heidelberg, another in cologne then the ferry from rotterdam to hull on friday night.

my new michelin pilot road 3 have been perfect @tu*