Originally Posted by
Takara
I have just fundamentally never understood why you would hang anything on your body that you could hang on your bike instead. Sure, a backpack is the most efficient way to hang stuff on your body, but you're still lifting it, lowering it, and moving it from side to side all day. You put it on your bike and it'll go forward more, up down and sideways less. Plus give you a lower center of gravity.
When "water on your back with a tube" was invented, it was for runners -- and for runners it makes perfectly good sense. For biking, I can't for the life of me understand how it makes the slightest bit of sense at all. What am I missing?
Nope. The Camelbak was invented by a rider in the Hotter-n-Hell Hundred in Texas. He used an IV bag and a t-shirt...and became a rich man for it. And it was because he could get enough water while riding.
As for the center of gravity thing, the bulk of the weight on the bike is above the bikes center of gravity. Adding 7 or 8 lbs to the bulk doesn't really affect it that much. That bulk, by the way, is you
