What's in your motorcycle tool kit?
Classic
Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycles came with two spacious tool boxes. The
factory supplied a tool kit, one spare fuse and some bikes even carried
a spare inner tube when customers picked them up.
Experience
quickly taught riders that more was needed. I learned fast that it was
essential to carry a spare clutch cable. But that wasn't all I found
necessary. I recently inventoried my tool boxes to discover that the
main thing I had added was rags for wiping up after roadside repairs!
Although
the list of things I carry is long, it is by no means satisfactory. I
notice that I have left out at least three essentials. Can you guess
what they are? Here's what I DO have:
Left tool box
- Leather fanny pack to contain tools.
- 1 rag to cushion fanny pack inside tool box.
- 3 additional rags.
- Factory Whitworth wrenches.
- Tube sockets and bar to turn them.
- Adjustable spanner.
- Pliers.
- Spark plug gaping tool.
- Bent bit of metal for feeling for piston at TDC.
- Tire prying irons.
- Screwdriver socket for adjusting points set.
- Tiny bottle of motor oil.
- Bungee cord.
- See-through plastic pouch to contain supplies.
- Allen wrench for tightening controls on handlebars.
- Wet wipe (probably long since dried up).
- 2 paper rags.
- Box of 20 Amp fuses (5).
- Chain master link.
- Tire valve cap with wrench end.
- Spark plug (pre-gapped).
- Bolt for left-side shift bodge.
- Clutch lever cable retainer.
Right tool box
- Owner's manual.
- Insurance card.
- Registration.
- Wet wipe (probably long since dried up).
- Throttle cable.
- Clutch cable.
- Plastic bags to keep these dry.
Next
time: What's missing? If you'd like to guess what I have in mind, let
me just add that I always wear a Leatherman tool, which provides
standard and Phillip's screwdrivers, another pliers and a knife.
