Design flaw? No. Design choice with which some will disagree? Yes. Many cages clear the FD without standoffs...the King Cage Riv sells being my favorite
For every frame with a low mount seat tube H2O setup, there's an observer pointing out that it's unnecessarily harder to reach For every frame with a high mount seat tube H2O setup, there's an observer pointing out that it's unnecessarily harder to shoulder the bike Being able to easily reach the seat tube H2O bottle in my mind would only be important if you needed two different beverage choices while riding. Otherwise it's easy-access on the downtube and backup water on the seattube. Swap them out when the downtube one is empty. What it gets you is extra space in the frame for a bag or for shouldering the bike. Low-mount H2O bosses have screwed me up a few times when I've wanted to use a 'low-clamp' front derailleur. On Jul 29, 11:39 am, Rob Harrison <robha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Agreed Peter, having the FD mount between the bosses does seem like a > design flaw, on any size frame. I suppose you could use spacers to hop > over the derailleur clamp. It'll be tough to reach down that far to > grab the bottle while riding. Why not have it higher? Something I'm > missing? > > Rob in Seattle > > On Jul 29, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Peter Pesce wrote: > > > And, much to my chagrin, the water bottle bosses on the seat tube are > > mounted much lower- so low that the FD clamps between them. > > Kind of ridiculous for a 60cm frame. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
