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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[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.