Noob question for the #Bicycle community. I'm going to be providing motorcycle support for a bicycle event this weekend, and we've been asked to bring whatever relevant tools we have, to provide assistance fixing flats, etc.

I inherited a toolkit that contains spoke wrenches, bicycle-sized tire irons, a bazillion allen keys, and several tube patch kits. I know the tire irons will be useful, and I have my own set of metric allen wrenches, but I'm not sure about the spoke wrenches or the (probably pretty old) patch kits.

Are the spoke wrenches useful for roadside repair?

Would an old patch be adequate to get a bike to the end of the event, or useless, or worse than useless?

Any other good tools to have on board?

TIA

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It was loud. Not, like, air horn loud, but definitely louder than what I had.

What followed was a mostly good-natured shouting match between the sales guys, who were all fired up to sell me a Road King, and the parts guys, who were absolutely going to die on the hill of having me install a stock Harley-Davidson horn on my BMW. 2/2.

I had a minor #motorcycle crash in 2014, avoiding a bad driver on a wet road (with inappropriate tires). Afterwards, I decided to upgrade my #BMW #K75 horn to something actually audible. I went to various places in Portland trying to find an aftermarket horn, with no luck, and ended up in a Harley dealership. They didn't have any aftermarket horns, but... "Have you heard the stock horn on the Road King?" I hadn't, so one of the sales guys fired up a showroom model and pushed the horn button. 1/2

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