Originally Posted by
Miele Man
It looks like you have enough room to put another water bottle cage and bottle behind the seat-tube and in front of the rear tire like I did with my Bianchi MTB back in the 1980s. The advantage of a long wheelbase with loads of rear wheel to seat-tube clearance.
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You saw the bike setup for mountain biking in the previous posting.
I usually have fenders on that bike, and with fenders I can't fit a bottle cage there. I can't fit the fenders in the S&S case when I travel, thus my international tours did not have a fender in that space, but quite frankly I never measured the amount of space there without a fender there. I do not think it would fit, but I will have to try and measure it some day.
That said, when I tour I have three liters of water bottles on the frame, note the three bottles, each of which is a one liter sized Smartwater bottle. So, a fourth is not that important.
But thanks for the suggestion.
ADDENDM:
Got out the ruler last night, would need about one more inch of chainstay length to make it work if I did not have fenders on the bike.