>>2012836I was about to question whether this is actually a problem, and companies aren't transparent about it. After all, I knew by memory the maximum load of my bicycle and its rack, so I obviously found that out from somewhere.
But then I looked at the manufacturer's website, and the specs sheets published there don't mention the max load. So I guess it was buried in the manual, like the author complains.
So I guess +1, this is silly and I should be able to know how much gear I can hang off this shit if I'm shopping for a new bike.
Fucking hell, let's go a step further, they should publish literally every bit of specs about the bike before I buy it. I wanna know the part numbers of all the stock parts so I can buy a set of spares at the same time as the bike. I should be able to calculate the lifetime expenses of the bike and budget it out to the next 10 years.
