Essential kit to have on board?

[datasafe]

This is a question for you seasoned Atom owners.

What is the essential kit that you keep in that massive boot?

JC

[fast buck]

Condoms, ladies love a man with an Atom!

[datasafe]

Ribbed, flavoured etc etc?

[datasafe]

As there's no room for a jack and they don't carry a spare! One of those tyre sealers in a can?

[fast buck]

good point John, tyre weld i think it's called, i'll remove all my condoms now and replace them with tyre weld!

[datasafe]

Could possibly serve a dual purpose!

[Angie=Babe]

Most important thing to carry in the car is a girls lippy

[Angie=Babe]

I think even the Atom has space for that

[David Ryan]

I think Angie should attempt to apply the lippie whist doing a Clarkson face morph at speed in the Atom.

It would make a great video!

Come to think of it...Ladies topless Atom racing could catch on! I am sure the extreem sports chanel would buy the rights. Hell...I would!

D.

[Angie=Babe]

Yes and wouldn't that be fun trying to explain in A & E how you got frost bite and dead flies all over your body. (the mind boggles) he he

[David Ryan]

I'm sure there would be plenty of volunteers at the track to de-bug and gently warm the affected areas!

D.

[Bruce Fielding]

I have a can of emergency tyre inflator, a rain suit, one washbag containing my autocom and radios, and another washbag containing a spare pair of shoggles, a pair of needlenose pliers, an adjustable spanner, spare fuses, spare bulbs, a multi allen key, two screwdrivers, a mini socket set and a small can of WD40 wrapped around with a long length of gaffer tape.

(Thought you might like a sensible answer.)

[coxm]

Staying with the sensible theme, I've gone from being a "what's the boot" character to carrying a tool kit similar to Bruce's. I prefer to carry a puncture repair kit, (available from Partco - its the one that the AA use) rather than an aerosol, with a few CO2 canisters for inflation.

Assuming you can find it, punctures are pretty easy to repair, and although I wouldn't recommend it, have done track days in a 355 and on a Blade, in both cases when I forgot that I had repaired a puncture. My BMW 1150GS has had a plug in for 3 years now with no problems. Rather more get you home capability than the aerosol type.

MC

[atom120]

coxm said:

Staying with the sensible theme, I've gone from being a "what's the boot" character to carrying a tool kit similar to Bruce's.

I remember us lending people with more "sensible" cars, tools out of the boot of my Atom at the ring earlier this year...

Again on a sensible theme - cable ties are a must - and they hardly affect the power-weight at all. I carry more duck tape than Bruce as well...

[John Lloyd]

bruce said:

one washbag

Bruce you'll be proud of me I've made a start and gone out and bought a wash bag too, now have to move it off my desk where it's been sitting for a month and get some tools into it.

Baby wipes.

Seriously, fantastic for wiping, bugs off everything, helmets, lights, chassie. I even cleaned the whole car with a pack in a hotel car park. People were looking at me as if I was mad.

>> Edited by John Lloyd on Monday 1st August 16:16

[John Lloyd]

Talking of kit, where can I get some of the clips that hold down the engine cover? (One of mine has gone walk about).

[Bruce Fielding]

If you're very good, I'll let you have a couple on wednesday - alternatively, cadge some from the factory...

Edited to add:
Is it the biggun or the smallun?

>> Edited by Bruce Fielding on Monday 1st August 16:52

[John Lloyd]

Biggun on the "flat" surface of the engine cover.