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What did you do with your Labor Day Monday holiday? I finally organized (first pass, maybe more to come) my bike parts & tools drawer.

A drawer in an aging IKEA dresser, set next to my front door, with a bunch of bicycle-relevant parts and tools. Enumerating every item here would be exhausting, but, organizationally: • a couple of half-quart containers sit at the top left, atop a carbon fiber repair kit • in front of those are “fluids” (Simple Green, WD-40, isopropyl alcohol) • to the right are rags and a pot of grease (for axles, cranks, seat posts, etc) • to the right of that is a box holding mostly “chain stuff” (links, extra chains, chain lube, a chain break tool that is human-hand-sized, rather than the one in the multitool you’ve used to do that before) • to the right of that is all tube/tire stuff (tubes, segments of tubes, several Presta and Schrader valves clipped out of burst tubes awaiting part component extraction if necessary) • looping clockwise, the next bin is brake stuff (cables, pads, a couple sets of calipers) • left of that is the pile of “short tools”: clamps, small wrenches, screw drivers, measuring tape, fluid level • left of that is the (in a case) digital caliper atop the “long tools” (wrenches, chain whip, hammer)

sep 1, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0

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