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An accumulation of ideas that might make life easier for your biking. Please send us your hints and ideas.
You clearly don't have room for a car size emergency triangle in your luggage let alone under your FJ's seat. Or do you? One thing you might like to try - just in case it comes in useful, although I hope not - is to use some masking tape to create the inside and outside of a triangle on the white plastic under your seat. If you have some bright red spray-on paint then fill in the space, leave it to dry and peel off the tape.
Ok. you'd prefer to emulate the Caana in Galilee trick, but this way round you can use the old bag of a wine box to store water. After the last drop of wine, prize off the tap and swill out the wine remnants. If you fill the bag with water you need not push the bung all the way back and it's pretty secure so long as you don't sit on it. Great for camping as it takes up hardly any room.
Stage two can see you into saving money by not buying a 'Camelback' or 'Platypus' water carrier for drinks of water on the go. Insert a rubber bung with a central hole which will take a plastic tube. This tube can lead from the bag (in your tank bag for example) to somewhere handy. You need a 'pinch clip' on the tube if you can't get hold of the cunning little mouthpiece that opens when you grip it with your teeth. (You can buy the mouthpieces as spares at camping/outdoor shops.) This works well on long trips when you want to intake water on the go. (I have yet to work on a device for the output side of the system!)
Plastic Tube
I carry a length of flexible polythene tube, about 3mm bore, in my tail fairing. In an emergency you can use this to syphon petrol (be careful, but fitting a T piece and a 'pinch clip' in this with an extra length of pipe on it can be used to avoid getting petrol in your mouth). If it is the same bore as your fuel lead from the pump you can by-pass the latter if it fails and as long as you keep a sufficient head of petrol in the tank. This works!
Emergency Tools - what do you carry that's been useful?
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Last updated: 2 April 2002 Brian Whalley