On Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 4:46:22 PM UTC-7, Andre Jute wrote:
On Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 12:24:19 AM UTC+1, Roger Merriman wrote:

How often or likely is a full tool kit needed?

My tool kit weighs 68 grammes. With it I can do everything on the bike that doesn't require a large specialist tool. Never been called on with my current bike, which celebrated it's tenth birthday this year.

Back home each of my bikes has full toolkit of its own, kept near it in a wheeled aluminium pilot's case. I open the relevant case once a year when the bike is serviced.

Bike frames and components are much superior today to what they were a generation ago, say in 1990, or perhaps it is just that I've been buying better bikes over time, with more knowledge and experience of what to look for and specify.

Andre Jute
Who's a curmudgeon, then?

I keep wondering what in the hell you people are doing. I have one or two innertubes, the plastic tire irons, the CO2 inflators with two cylinders and a multitool in a pack and have weighed THREE of them and they are all 2 lbs.