Originally Posted by
badger1
However, I've no desire or need to mount appliances of various kinds to my bike; one or two bottle cages suffice. I've never, since resuming cycling in a serious way in 2002, attached my bike to my car and driven to a place from which to ride. Just a personal principle (and nothing more!): doing so strikes me as defeating the purpose. Rides should begin and end at one's front door. As to cleaning the bike, never found conventional cabling to be an impediment.
That kind of mantra would have stopped me from riding through the mountains in Colorado or along the lakes of Wisconsin. There's more to see in life than what lies outside your front door.
