- Moleskine notebook
- bicycle pump
- Second camera battery
- pain killers are great when you have to do work etc and your head is spinning from the flue (before the jokes come in, I think I've only used pain killers a hand full of times for a hangover in my whole life)
- a light spare notepad and a sticky pad
- spare bicycle tube
- I hate Links (aka Axe) but it was the only brand in the local shop... needed for when I cycle a bit to fast and I'm not headed home
- spare camera
- TEMPORARY ITEM: press disk inc screen shots and artwork for Resistance 2...
- TEMPORARY ITEMS: DCU publications 'Campus' magazine and 'the College View' newspaper, the DCU research bulletin and Phoenix magazine. Daily there'd also be at least an Irish Times sticking out the back of the bag.
- Air-tight water bottle. Filled with tap water. Buying bottled water in shops is environmentally unfriendly and just plain foolish.
- Sun blocking thinky for the camera which is being used to take this photo.
- Sun glasses... I'm getting sick of explaining to people who don't drive or cycle that sun glasses are needed in the winter when on the road.
- Bottle opener. Has been useful on trains and in friends' houses etc. Last one I had in my bage when interrailing over the summer got taken off my a few weeks later when I forgot about when getting on an aeroplane. There's so many reasons to hate air travel.
- "Report's Notebook" ... not what I'm calling it but Tesco and some other brand I've used call these by that name
- Two different headphones - a standard set for my laptop and another for my phone. I try to keep the laptop one in there always otherwise I'll forget it when going on a train.
- A few pens and a pencil. At least one of the pens don't work.
- highlighter
- voice recorder
- NOT GOING BACK IN: broken old USB memory key / card reader
- spear USB memory key (primary one is with my bunch of keys, which is kept in my pocket, not bag)
- Sony Memory Stick Mini converter
- x4 AAA batteries -- as used by my voice recorder
- x2 AA batteries -- as used by my wireless mouse
- lens cleaning wipe
- spare tops for my phone's headphones
- bicycle lights
- x3 of the plastic version of the tool to remove a tire from a wheel. Don't know its name, and, thankfully, I haven't had to use them yet. I have three because that's how they came.
- screwdriver -- it's for one of my bike light brackets which keeps comes lose every so often
- Ventolin inhaler. I'm a "mild" asmatic
- mini camera stand
- spear Sony Memory Stick
What's in my bag
Not pictured are: my gloves which are in the bag if not on my hands or my coat's pockets, tissues which I genially keep just in case even if when I don't have a cold, and the camera which is being used to take this.
Comments and faves
John P No 7 (53 months ago | reply)
That is an awful lot of Junk to be carrying on Casual Jaunts around the Town. Riddle when is important good stuff Junk,answer when you do not use most of it and you end up carrying a Dead Weight around with you.
I have a Dynamo on two of my Bikes so no fiddling with Lamps. I have one of those Sigg Water Bottles in Black,I hate the Taste of the Water in those Plastic Bottles especially when the Weather is hot it tastes Horrible.
You left out the Pull Up Trousers for the Wet Weather,I will have to get those as my Legs keeps getting Drenched.Whatever you do Keep on Cycling.
Cian Ginty (53 months ago | reply)
Most of the weight is in the water bottle, and the two notebooks -- all of which I use daily, or at least almost daily. And all of the smaller stuff fits in my bag's many pockets with room to spare. Having extra batteries and pens, and the spare camera, all comes in handy regularly.
I agree with you on the taste of water in plastic bottles.
I don't carry rain gear regularly, I'll only bring it with me on wet days (like today) or when I think it'll rain later in the day. Since getting my new bike in November, I somehow didn't get mudguards at the time (I'm getting them soon), but I've been commuting a lot on it since and have only gotten drenched once! Although I was sick or otherwise off on some notably wet days.
John P No 7 (53 months ago | reply)
I looked at some of your other Pictures and I understand why you take this stuff with you .You said you are a Freelance Journalist.
I used to have Pull ups,the Heavy Kind that I used in Work and a Thin Pair for the Bike but these wore out Years ago. I have been Drenched a few times with no change of Trousers until Nightfall so these are handy for me. Although I am betwween Jobs at moment but still need them for Bike.
Plastic Bottles are always Dicy because of the possibly of Chemicals Leaking out when Bottle gets Old so I prefer Metal. Mine got Dinged when it fell off the back Rack on the cycle Path at Fairview Park when it went over a Hump in the ground but it is still fine. I usually take a Spanner set it is a Folding Kit with Phillips and Hex and Allan Keys, A Puncture KIt, Metal Tyre Levers, Zefal Pump the conventional Old style with 5 inch Tube to stick in Tyre Valve, Battered Old Olympus Digital Camera and Notebook and Pen, Gloves for Cold Weather.
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