More musings on bike accessories

[dmaze]

From the ride yesterday:

• Almost everyone had a bike computer and clipless pedals of some sort. I had among the least-nice bikes of the people there.
• Almost everyone depended heavily on the ride support. Few people had anything beyond a butt bag with emergency repair supplies and two water bottles.
• A couple of people carried small Camelbak bags, supplementing their water, but there visibly wasn't anything else in there.

Which says to me that the cool kids don't try to carry a full day's worth of supplies for this sort of ride in any case. Which in turn says that if I am going to carry a full day's worth of supplies, it's not any more wrong to put them on a rack instead of my back.

Comments

[nuclearpolymer.livejournal.com]

Strangely, although the vast majority of the single bikes there were quite high end, and I didn't see any of them with a back rack, the tandems were more normal and seemed to be carrying more stuff. We even saw one tandem with a special kickstand! (Normal ones won't hold up the longer bike, this one was more like a motorcycle stand...)

[fredrickegerman.livejournal.com]

I'd never seen a full-custom carbon frame before. No seatpost, the seat mounting was molded right into the frame itself.

[fredrickegerman.livejournal.com]

And yes, ride support is really the way to go. In this respect this century is MUCH better than Climb to the Clouds, where everyone just seems to pack vast amounts of unspeakable goo and live off that.

Classic long-distance rider thing seems to be to stop at a sandwich shop midway, and use icky nutrition elsewhere.