Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
Unless a bicycle was a pure racing machine I cannot see why a designer would exclude a few grams and not include fender / rack eyelets on a bicycle and even then, many old road and mountain bicycles did come equipped like this.
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. If they think it'd detract from the looks or some crap like that, there are clever ways to include those features without making them be seen - the All-City Nature Boy did it well. I mean, they have the one set of front eyelets, why not include a second one? Lazyness? Some weird assumption about the purchasers of this particular bike? Maybe they have a bunch of leftover steel 29r forks with only one set of eyelets. idk, it makes no sense.