As you work up to longer and longer training and perms and brevet rides, you will discover what is "optimal" for your setup - what works best for you. Trial and error. Tweaking your setups until you find what works for you. Balancing between light and efficient, comfortable, and durable/reliable (Noone wants to be stranded in the middle of nowhere). Same with your food and drink on rides. Same with your clothing and shoes. seem to do fin I have seen randonneurs on bikes with all sorts of setups. So never fear. Front racks, rear racks, upright bars, "heavy" steel bikes, skinny tires on carbon race bikes, lights duct taped to helmets, crammed bar bags dangling high up on high handlebars, etc.
One of the greatest distance riders in the history of bike riding, Lon Haldeman, I think rode his Quickbeam with a hacked rear rack and bungeed large rear bag on PBP with mismatched components and hacked bar wrap. I remember seeing a write up about it by another randonneur somewhere online with pics. So whatever works for you is best!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
