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.

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[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...)