Recommended utility tool for road bike?

Gooserider wrote:
"gds" wrote in message
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Well others may have different experience but for myself minimalist
works best. Over my cycling career of over 100,000 miles I have
never
had to repair a chain on the road.

I've ridden for 26 years or so and I've never had a flat on the road.
I
still carry a pump and spare tube, but it's amazing I've never had a
flat.
Never had a mechanical of any sort while on the road. I've come home
to find
a flat on the bike. Wonder if it's gremlins...

My sceptical nature requires that I ask how many miles you've ridden in
those 26 years. And I imagine it also matters what type of bike, tires,
tubes you ride.
As for me I'd guess that I get a flat every 500 miles or so.And they
seem to come in clusters. So, I'll have a bunch of flats and then not
another for quite a while. But then I ride high performance, high
pressure clincherswith fairly light tubes. But it is better now since
moving exclusively to clinchers from tubulars about a dozen years ago.

And I too have not had any other on road failures. But I do tend to do
a lot of preventive maintainance.