Aside from your bike, what essential items do you take with you on every sportive?

No matter how much you pack into the car there always seems to be something missing. We ask our readers what's on their essential packing list for a sportive. In association with Decathlon.

We've all been there, scrabbling around the boot of the car looking for that spare inner tube that is definitely in there somewhere.

The list of essential items for a sportive gets bigger and bigger in the quest to avoid that inevitable sense of dread, ''I'm sure i've forgotten something''.

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