Thread: I'm curious - why frame bags versus water bottle cages?
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Old 08-01-23 | 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by 79pmooney
The piece I don't get - on a bike intended for bike packing, why the sloped top tube? Horizontal or close gives you room for the same top tube bag and much better access to both water bottles. This just strikes me as a no-brainer. Not that this is an issue for me. I stay on pavement and reserve my top tube for the pump. (As important as water is for me, air is more so for the bike.)
At this point in bicycle evolution, finding a bike without a sloping top tube is probably a fool’s errand. For the original intention of using bikepacking bags for off-road use, few modern (post about 1995) mountain bikes have horizontal top tubes for rather obvious reasons. Not many road bikes have horizontal top tubes any more as well. Road bikes have sloping top tubes for performance reasons.
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