The OP believes there is an obvious design flaw that the seat tube water bottle isn't more easily accessible on lots of bikes.
This confuses me. To those who need/want a higher mounted seat tube water bottle on their bikes: what exactly is the use case? a. I run ONLY a seat tube water bottle for some really good reason, and I therefor it should be super accessible, because it's my only source of ride-hydration b. I run two different drinks and have to have easy access at BOTH to manage my hydration strategy c. I always drink from the seat tube bottle FIRST for some really good reason, and use the down tube bottle as the back up, so the seat tube bottle needs to be super accessible d. some other use case For me, and I assumed for most other cyclists, the seat tube bottle is not for drinking. The down tube bottle is for drinking. When the down tube bottle is empty, then I move the seat tube bottle to the down tube, and THEN that bottle is for drinking. In other words, it's a STORAGE location, not an ACCESSIBILITY location, for my use-case. When I grab for a bottle, 19 out of 20 times it's the down tube bottle. I only grab the seat tube bottle when it's time to swap. For storage, I prefer efficiency, and down the seat tube gets it out of the way and that makes sense to me. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Friday, September 20, 2024 at 7:00:58 AM UTC-7 Michael Baquerizo wrote: > i'm ready for the answer to be so obvious that I assume this is a dumb > question. > > So often, on many bike frame, but also on Riv's - the bottle bosses on the > seat tube straddle where the derailleur clamp would go. > > however, almost AS often as I see this, I also see plenty of real estate > for them to exist ABOVE said clamp area, where they'd no doubt be more > easily accessed by a rider. > > why? it seems so obviously a design flaw, but surely I'M the one in the > wrong. > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/10af9879-365c-473c-b855-434fe2e46ac0n%40googlegroups.com.
