Originally posted by sharkcaver
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When travelling, room is at a premium and weight is critically limited so there must be a compromise. I see people traveling with all sorts of tyre repair gear including slide hammers and bead breakers, I see people with 2 ruined spares on rear carriers and more on the roof, so I wonder if they were carrying much less weight and using more appropriate tyres, pressures and speed for the terrain they are traversing, would they have the same problems?
I do not carry a bead breaker as I can use a bottle jack to do this job, sure it is much slower but the last time I had to break a tyre bead was in the mid 1980's. My tyre compressor and plug repair kit fits into a tool box 350mm x140mm X 120mm all under 4kgs, 3x 600mm light steel alloy tyre levers nest together neatly and take up little room but do weigh about 500 grams each. With this gear I can repair more than 2 flat tyres if I need to, 99.9% of the time it is for repairs on fellow travelers tyres and not my own.
OJ.
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