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

[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.