Jake how do I thumbs down you
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I donāt share any of the velominati aesthetics bullshit about using jersey pockets
(though I agree it is the worst possible place for velcro in a lycra-wearing world)
My real beef is that a tiny saddlebag makes your fancy superlight road bike feel really heavy when you stand on the pedals
Putting the bag at the far end of the longest lever arm makes a tube+co2 feel like ten pounds if you row the bike at all while climbing, from the small tightly-attached weight swinging back and forth ā an inverted pendulum
Rando boxes donāt do that except in super slow maneuvering, and feed bags donāt do it at all. Revelate butt rockets carry enough to be worth it and also waggle enough to be decoupled.
Iāve long thought that someoneās gonna make bank on a tiny framebag format that fits behind the headtube with about the volume of a Jandd mountain seat bag
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Canāt do it behind the head tube, because of retrogrouches with their downtube shifters.
Jandd solved this a long time ago, though.
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Isnāt that what the new toptube/behind the stem bags do? Seems lots of new gravgrav bikes have bosses for em
You know it gonna end up being Specialized SWATting it out of the park.
you put the thumbs down in the backpack and send it on over
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Idk, I have a pretty tidy saddlebag and I donāt really notice it. Coffee bag with tube, 2 co2 and inflator, multi tool, patch kit, chain breaker, and tire lever, all in a coffee bag held tight against my saddle with a barfly hopper.
I would be into that. Had thoughts about having something similar made for the Katu.
Goodbye turdly SP dyno hub, hello much better rolling Shimano dyno and fancy fork. Itās rides very nice now. Excited about this bike again.
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how dat fork feels?
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yāall decorate your saddle packs? sounds like you should decorate your packs. make them yours and a part of you(and your bike)
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the problem is that they arenāt new
to me they project the shame associated with the triathlon section of a 15-year old Nashbar catalog, where your choices of ballistic nylon bento box included plain black, and black with a support the troops yellow ribbon embroidered on it
the current crop of structured bolt-on ones are obviously better, but still feels like they should hang tight inside instead of standing loose on top
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Iāve got a carradice and itās a mess when youāve got a laptop and lunch in it, but itās a little better on the bars. mostly it doesnāt fit a laptop well enough because was it was designed when the bulkiest object youād put in it was a thermos and a jacket.
The correct solution for roadie times is of course a small jandd framebag.
That reminds me to hit up the Swift sale.
Felt good, maybe a bit more supple, not wiggly at all, but hard to tell exactly because it was only a few miles, different font tire (with a tube), no rack/bag, and havenāt ridden the the bike at all in the last five months.
TC if the Endpoint adapter kit had come out a few weeks earlier it probably would have saved me $450 (because I bought it too!). Deposit had already been sent at that point.
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The Walt on my big chungus is not wiggly either. He makes a good fork.
Actual Endpoint wiggle forks are in paint.
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Thereās a Swift sale?
https://builtbyswift.com/product-category/sale/
might get a bandito.
ORRR do I want to go hard and get a paloma+ the clicky mount
Ive been eyeballing a paloma and clicky mount for a while now but I canāt convince myself to do it
GARY LETS GET MATCHING SNACK BAGS SO WE CAN EAT MATCHING SNACKS A THOUSAND MILES APART OUR LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDS.
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