Moved bottle cages off the Jones’ truss fork and onto the downtube (using WT B-Rad jawn).
bottle cage doubler?
I’ll happily loan you my rivnut setter I used to install new bosses after my B-Rad ripped clear off the fucking tube, taking the bosses with it.
What kind of frame/tubing?
You can rivnut steel.
road frame. Definitely bumped the protruding bottles a bit getting the bike in and out of the house, but no massive whacks. Tube diameter is 31.8, not sure about butting profile. the builder said it was a bit of a dog’s dinner, tubing brand wise.
This biek always makes me happy. The DayRunier would fit 2.2’s
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Good to know. I can run three cages w/o the B-Rad, but the bottle on the underside of the DT gets covered with all kinds of nasty stuff.
Using bottle bosses for stuff heavier than a bottle has always seemed sketchy to me.
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This. When it’s time for that bottle I pour it into one of the emptied first two.
heavier is probably ok to an extent, it’s wider that’ll get you. After my failed bottle cage doubling experiment, I went back to tri buttrockets, and am currently trying keeping a Platypus water bag in my framebag, refilling both bottles once they’re empty. It keeps the weight a little lower and closer to my own center of gravity, which feels better than having 52oz of water and 1lb of brackets and cages above the top tube.
Good lord willing, the heat will break soon and I can go back to carrying just a couple of bottles. This week, it’s going to be around 90 with solid humidity, so my experiments in occasionally destructive water portage continue.
I may go the reservoir in a half-frame-bag route. We’ll see…
I’m feeling really spoiled about being able to stop for water somewhere on every bike ride. I can’t think of a single local ride I’ll go on without at least one water faucet.
I’m mostly riding in ag areas, and Virginia parks don’t have fountains the way California ones reliably do. So there’s not a lot of water around, and I don’t really trust what’s there. Most of the local distance riders stop at gas stations for water.
this is largely a regional and seasonal thing for me, but it’s good practice for the super-brutal desert crossings I want to do when I’m living on the West coast again.
Thanks. Sounds like a categorical ‘meh’. I think for me a truly wider beam would have sold it, but i’ll keep going with the +headlamp for now
Friday night beater build. Parts bin special. Came with frame, brakes, crank and seatpost. Been in bed the last 2 days with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo and serious voms.
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The bike is cool but let’s see more of that porch.
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It’s a very wet deck. Being lashed by southerly sqaulls the last couple of days.
I’m using a banjo with some XT calipers so I can route the hose up the SS and TT instead of the CS & DT. I like having all the hoses up on the TT so that I don’t have braze-ons and a hose fouling up the DT for easier bike shouldering. I had to pick up my bike pretty frequently on a bikepacking this weekend and was very happy with how easy it was to grab the DT. I also need to shoulder the bike daily on my commute when taking the transit stairwells.
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Neat! Thanks for the deets.
