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Gear Talk / Re: Tools / parts to carry on tour

« on: June 03, 2024, 12:40:59 pm »

I was riding with a friend and the inside teeth on his cassette body stripped out. He was dead in the water. The pedals would just spin and we were in thr middle of nowhere. I though maybe we could zip tie the top granny gear to the spokes and ride it like a fixie. But he declined and got a ride out. I still wondet if my idea would have worked. Put a zip tie on ever adjacent spoke running throught first gear on cassete. Then ride it easy and dont shift in 1st!!!

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Gear Talk / Re: Tools / parts to carry on tour

« on: May 11, 2024, 02:50:29 pm »

Great advice thank you all so much!!
Im glad i found this forumn with nice people willing to help

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Gear Talk / Re: Tools / parts to carry on tour

« on: May 10, 2024, 03:03:20 pm »

I know alot of people are sold on tubeless but im not yet. I guess i figure if tubes were good for 140 years and still being used  by motorcycles they should still be good on a bike. Easy to pull off a tire and throw a spare tube aNd keep rolling. Not  interested in having all that goo all over me on the side of the road.  One of my friends has tubeless, he's constantly messing around with it and airing, and he carries a tube!!! Hahaha

So what am i missing here, please educate me

Thanks again

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Gear Talk / Re: Tools / parts to carry on tour

« on: May 10, 2024, 11:09:49 am »

What about a spare freehub body or the ratchet fingers and springs inside? Do bottom brackets get loose or come apart?

Bike is brand new panorama forillon

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Gear Talk / Re: Tools / parts to carry on tour

« on: May 09, 2024, 07:35:23 pm »

Thanks for the info, my first few trips will be around 350-500 road and gravel. Riding all the local roads in Alaska close to my home

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Gear Talk / Tools / parts to carry on tour

« on: May 09, 2024, 11:58:32 am »

Hello! Im new to this forum and new to bike touring. Im starting touring from my home and some of the stretches im riding can be 300 miles to the nearest bike shop.

So far i have: m19 multitool, tubes, tire levers, patches, quick links, casset tool, BB wrench, extra spokes spoke wrench, pump.

Is their anything else i might need/use to fix the bike? Should i carry an extra derailer hangar? Extra cassette?

Thanks in advance for your help