125CC RACING BIKE

I used to cycle a lot, untill I abandoned this hobby about 2,5 years ago, for reasons I can't remember now.

Yesterday, I went out into our backyard to look for my bicycle. It was still there, but it was really dirty because of the rain, wind, sun, snow and hail it had seen during the past 2,5 years. Some obscure climbing plant had gotten hold of the spokes and a spider had found a home under the saddle.

I washed the bicycle with stuff Rene usually uses to wash the car. Rene went to the bicycle shop and bought about € 15,00 worth of new parts (screws and gear cable, basically), replaced the parts that had gotten rusty, cleaned the chain and lubricated it, and guess what? The bicycle is running as smoothly as if it were new. Even the tires don't need to be replaced.

Buy Giant bicycles.

The contents of my bicycle saddle bag. Roughly left to right:

Seat bag.
CO2 cartridges (16 gram threaded)
Inflator (for use with threaded CO2 cartridges)
Glueless patches.
Adjustable wrench / spanner for wheel removal
Tube
Tire levers x 2
Chainring wrench
Topeak Alien multitool

The Alien is usually overkill, but I have had opportunity to use the knife and even the chain breaker. Allen wrenches is usually all I need.

I own the chainring tool because I've actually needed it on the road, believe it or not. I don't need it anymore, though.