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Why carrying stuff on a bike hasn't been solved yet? taking just the basics is still a pain in the ass to this day, and instead of fixing it, bike manufacturers keep on "developing" dumb bullshit like pic related. Why's it so hard to just pack a spare tube, small toolkit and 2 bottles of water? If we can now get all the cables inside the tubes, thus meaning the top surface of the tube can be used to store stuff too, instead we still have the same storage sollutions used in the 1920s.
In my opinion, bikes should have:
>a battery inside the seat tube that feeds both lights and can also feed the gps unit, should you have one
>bottle cages in the down tube and seat tube, but a container in the top tube for a pump and a spare tube
>standardized mounts for front/rear bags/panniers
All of that is easily achievable within the UCI limits for bikes, but companies are just too greedy and freds too gullible. They'll keep on selling chink carbon for sportsbike money and nothing can stop them. Hell, now they're even selling bikes without adjustable saddle heights, you're literally cutting the fucking thing.
In my opinion, bikes should have:
>a battery inside the seat tube that feeds both lights and can also feed the gps unit, should you have one
>bottle cages in the down tube and seat tube, but a container in the top tube for a pump and a spare tube
>standardized mounts for front/rear bags/panniers
All of that is easily achievable within the UCI limits for bikes, but companies are just too greedy and freds too gullible. They'll keep on selling chink carbon for sportsbike money and nothing can stop them. Hell, now they're even selling bikes without adjustable saddle heights, you're literally cutting the fucking thing.