I ride a 30 year old Shovelhead and carry a bag full of tools, just about every sae tool known to man, and 1 metric (10mm) damn new batteries! I also cary extra plugs, zip ties, duct tape, extra smokes in zip lock, quart of oil, flashlight, cell phone, pint of Jack Daniels, clean rags, did I mention Pint of Jack?, and other odds and ends. So far in the last 3 years, all I have ever needed was the set of plugs, (and the Jack). Even then the plugs weren't the problem, the wires came off my voltage regulator and the battery went dead. Just used the kick start and rode home with the lights off to recharge the battery. My bike has hard bags and 1 is for the bike and the other is for me. When I take a road trip, over 500 miles, I have a tour pak that I mount too. I know that someday I will get a flat tire and I have spoke wheels with tubes (PITA), but for those of you with tubeless tires, I would suggest a plug kit. Some passerby will have a 12 volt compressor and you can get home. But for the really bad days, I made sure that my brother has a key to the lock on my bike trailer and I have his number on speed dial. I know that that sounds like a lot of stuff to pack, but I have been riding for over 35 years and have ALWAYS rode her home. I may look into some alloy wheels and tubeless tires, but I just can't give up the look of the spokes. I am old, and I like old school.

 

I've got a nylon bag that I keep in a saddlebag (should fit in a tool bag)that's about 5x7x3, and it's unreal what I can keep in there. First,I have a mini tool kit in a plastic case (GearWrench) that I found at Lowe's that's a ratchet type tool with flat, phillips, torx, hex, and standard sockets up to 9/16. It was about 20 bucks, and I use it all the time for light stuff. Also in the bag are a tire plugging kit, a pair of mini vice grips, some zip ties, and a little duct tape. I can deal with a lot of unexpected junk out in the middle of nowhere where I like to ride (and where cell service is bad).

 

Many of the aforementioned; a few wrenches, a couple screw drivers, crescent wrench, allen wrenches, blue loctite, tire gauge, and cell phone.

 

how many drawer tool box do you carry?

 

I carry the smaller cruztools rollup toolkit, a leatherman tool and a"knife" in my fork tool bag.

 

Got the Craftsman motorcycle tool set because it was on sale for $39. The best tool in the bag was the Torx multi wrench.



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I'll ask the obvious question, do you have some pics you can post of the tool bag install.

 

I have the Craftsman cycle tool set. It was on sale for I think $50 when I got it and it has more than enough tools in it than I hope to ever need. We were riding with a guy on a Big Dog and had what we needed to pull his rocker covers and adjust his push rods on the side of the road. That was definately a first for me, and I hope my last

 

Good one Notorious - it sounds like a lot, but it wraps up nice into a roll and fits in my saddle bag. Guess I'm friggin paranoid. We ride in the middle of nowhere, Texas and breaking down would suck bad. Of course whatever breaks is going to need something that I didn't bring.