I am right there with you Cam. I want enough stuff to get out of a mechanical, but not have to carry my whole life with me. My go to of late is the [Race Face Rip Strip](https://www.raceface.com/products/details/rip-strip-lumbar-belt) with a [Back Bottle](https://backbottle.com/) (no water bottle mount on my bike...boo!) for local rides of less than two hours. I carry my phone, and some snacks in my shorts pockets and I have a multi tool, my keys, a tire lever, CO2 inflater, tube, rotor truing tool, chain tool, spare links and the bottle in the Rip Strip. The Belt was given to me by a more svelte individual whom could not get it to fit right. This is not a problem for me having plenty of posterior. I may, like you ditch the tube/lever/inflater soon, but being on a new wheelset I have not wanted to chance it just yet. On two hour plus rides I grab my [EVOC Enduro/FR](https://www.evocusa.com/collections/fr-protector-hydration-backpacks/products/evoc-fr-enduro) pack. You can fit your life in this thing if you want and it has a spine protector. The main difference I've found with the EVOC pack (and I've tried nearly every pack under the sun) is that it does not move. No up and down movement nor swinging when loaded down. The waist belt is wide and made of neoprene. It cinches down without any hard spots that would either suffocate you or perform a primitive appendectomy. It packs some solid German engineering for the long days.
June 15, 2017, 9:32 a.m. - Raymond Epstein
I am right there with you Cam. I want enough stuff to get out of a mechanical, but not have to carry my whole life with me. My go to of late is the [Race Face Rip Strip](https://www.raceface.com/products/details/rip-strip-lumbar-belt) with a [Back Bottle](https://backbottle.com/) (no water bottle mount on my bike...boo!) for local rides of less than two hours. I carry my phone, and some snacks in my shorts pockets and I have a multi tool, my keys, a tire lever, CO2 inflater, tube, rotor truing tool, chain tool, spare links and the bottle in the Rip Strip. The Belt was given to me by a more svelte individual whom could not get it to fit right. This is not a problem for me having plenty of posterior. I may, like you ditch the tube/lever/inflater soon, but being on a new wheelset I have not wanted to chance it just yet. On two hour plus rides I grab my [EVOC Enduro/FR](https://www.evocusa.com/collections/fr-protector-hydration-backpacks/products/evoc-fr-enduro) pack. You can fit your life in this thing if you want and it has a spine protector. The main difference I've found with the EVOC pack (and I've tried nearly every pack under the sun) is that it does not move. No up and down movement nor swinging when loaded down. The waist belt is wide and made of neoprene. It cinches down without any hard spots that would either suffocate you or perform a primitive appendectomy. It packs some solid German engineering for the long days.