Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
The down tube has three holes for the bottle cage so if you have the tool kit you can sit the bottle higher up the frame, if not you can have it in the traditional position
A design positive....or negative?
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The down tube has three holes for the bottle cage so if you have the tool kit you can sit the bottle higher up the frame, if not you can have it in the traditional position
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
It looks like the bike has a colostomy bag.
midlife
Guru
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Given that most of us carry some bits and pieces, bikes could be better designed to meet that need.
Putting stuff in a bag to hang off the back of the saddle or the handlebars is hardly an elegant solution.
It's the triumph of form over function.
Very hard to make a luggage compartment look sexy - as this bike shows - so most bikes don't have one.
Putting stuff in a bag to hang off the back of the saddle or the handlebars is hardly an elegant solution.
It's the triumph of form over function.
Very hard to make a luggage compartment look sexy - as this bike shows - so most bikes don't have one.
NorthernDave
Never used Über Member
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- The real Northern Powerhouse
They go in the hedge don't they..?*
* - I'd like to point out that the above is a joke in case anyone doesn't have a sense of humour. I always put my rubbish in a bin, or take it home with me and recycle where possible
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
It's a rubbish place for a bag. It gets covered in mud and a low C of G is not what you want on a bike.
Smokin Joe
Legendary Member
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
I'll agree about the rubbish bag, but a low C of G is exactly what you want on a bike, or on any vehicle for that matter.
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
No, a bike is more like an inverted pendulum in the way it balances (so more weight up top actually reduces the frequency of oscillation, making it easier to balance), and it leans in corners. I'd agree with you for a trike.
Quite. After coming back from a month of fully loaded touring, taking to my road bike with a big backpack felt like I was going to flip any time I turned the handlebars. Took me a good while to relearn how to ride with a high centre of mass and without weight held low on the forks..
Edit: reading comprehension fail on my part
I think my point is that you can get accustomed to most weight distributions.
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Lifestyle choices are where an awful lot of money goes, but people dress it up as 'essentials.' I agree with you on the phones. I was looking at leased cars at one point - trying to find the cheapest one I could. I found a seat mii on a two year deal for £67 a month. I realised that some of my colleagues were paying more than that for their phone.
There is a middle ground - though that is getting hollowed out as we are all going to extremes. You get cheap gyms and expensive gyms for instance, with the middle being squeezed. Some people run bangers for a few hundred pounds cash and others run £50k cars.
I think a lot of us on here would be in the middle ground bikewise, with a few outliers at both ends. Skipdiver John helps us keep a sense of perspective that not everyone values a bike in the same way.
What happens if you depart before retiring, let us not forget the lovely Vernon.
- Location
- Glasgow
One needs to find a happy spending medium, after having done a basic "will I still be alive at ..." risk assessment.
I agree. Around these parts it is quite common to live like a pauper whilst having hundreds of thousands in the bank, but because they have spent their lives being frugal they cannot change.
We've just had a murder trial - where the victim, who did 'cash-in-hand' car repairs, had over £200k in cash in his cottage. We were wondering idly whether he had any plans to do anything with it, other than just keep accumulating more.
