Great video, thanks - I have Arundel bottle cages, expensive but they work so well, are light and dont wreck the printing on my bidons like others. One is a side loader the other is normal. The side loader is for the downtube so that if I have a bag , I can still get to the bottle easily. Highly recommend them
Good list and explanation of each item! One suggestion for bottle cages are the King stainless cages. They're inexpensive, last forever, and being stainless steel, don't have a coating that would leave marks on bottles.
ahhhhh, to have the luxury of having the hair to get caught on exposed screws :) I've moved on to a frame bag and I have Apidura's triangular 3 liter water reservoir in there. I also hated the layer of grime on my bottles from cheaper cages, but couldn't handle 50 bucks for titanium or carbon cages. So I spent 100 on a frame bag and 60 bucks on the bladder. Overall, great list.
so luxurious :P. Interesting you use a frame bag as your "permanent" multi-use storage system for day rides. I associated full frame bags to bikepacking. Now that you mentioned it, I see the appeal!
@@bikewithcarolin You are in the Bay Area where the weather is typically glorious. I've called west Texas and southern Mississippi home and on a summertime day ride of 40 miles, drinking 3 liters of water is very easy to do. When I head out away from cars, there are no water stops, so I have to bring water for the entire ride. So long as I have a head or tail wind, the frame bag is aero. However in a west Texas cross wind, I did have a sail there in that center triangle.
My friends wide had the hair issue with a helmet I told her small piece of packing tape will cover the piece that snags your hair. She did it now she says no hair snags now
For a rear fender that can be removed. Look at the mountain bike industry. The brand Mucky Nutz makes a variety of fenders. As for your helmet Seth from Berm Peak did a video on helmets. I understand your concern was over the screws pulling your hair. The video he did brought to my attention that VA Tech is testing helmets for various sports for impact safety. You may be like me and feel you have a safe her et but when I checked the list I actually had the worst performing helmet. Most people think all helmets will protect with MIPS being the best. Not all MIPS perform the same. I hope this information can help you and your viewers.
That picture of the inside of the helmet is a deal breaker for me too. But, because the MIPS is not an integrated part. It is an add on. I would rather have a helmet without MIPS than to have it like that. It makes the helmet so much hotter. The MIPS stops the air from flowing accross my head.
@bikewithcarolin I love my Giro Aether and my Smith Ignite. I also have a POC Octal Aero I bought to use primarily as a winter helmet. It is the most comfortable helmet I've ever used. Unfortunately, the third time I wore it was in a gravel race and a dude left his line and took me out. The helmet took a hard blow. So, I had to retire it. I get my helmets by constantly scanning the internet for clearance sales on them. It is usually an outgoing color or a model that has been superceded by a newer one. But, I get nice helmets for really good prices.
I hate cyclists who think that it is okay to spray greasy road gunge over the person behind, but feel smug that they've got their stupid little bits of plastic preventing too much mud being sprayed up their backs. Plastic bottle cages work for me and are cheap. Rather than trying to fish items out of a back pocket, I prefer to use a top-tube bag.
I have some gloves with velcro and wash them in a small mesh laundry bag. This prevents the velcro from snagging other things in the wash.
Great video, thanks - I have Arundel bottle cages, expensive but they work so well, are light and dont wreck the printing on my bidons like others. One is a side loader the other is normal. The side loader is for the downtube so that if I have a bag , I can still get to the bottle easily. Highly recommend them
Good list and explanation of each item!
One suggestion for bottle cages are the King stainless cages. They're inexpensive, last forever, and being stainless steel, don't have a coating that would leave marks on bottles.
👏🏻, I'll keep that one in mind, ty!
ahhhhh, to have the luxury of having the hair to get caught on exposed screws :) I've moved on to a frame bag and I have Apidura's triangular 3 liter water reservoir in there. I also hated the layer of grime on my bottles from cheaper cages, but couldn't handle 50 bucks for titanium or carbon cages. So I spent 100 on a frame bag and 60 bucks on the bladder. Overall, great list.
so luxurious :P. Interesting you use a frame bag as your "permanent" multi-use storage system for day rides. I associated full frame bags to bikepacking. Now that you mentioned it, I see the appeal!
@@bikewithcarolin You are in the Bay Area where the weather is typically glorious. I've called west Texas and southern Mississippi home and on a summertime day ride of 40 miles, drinking 3 liters of water is very easy to do. When I head out away from cars, there are no water stops, so I have to bring water for the entire ride. So long as I have a head or tail wind, the frame bag is aero. However in a west Texas cross wind, I did have a sail there in that center triangle.
Carbon bottlecages are less than 10 bucks off aliexpress. Just saying.
My friends wide had the hair issue with a helmet I told her small piece of packing tape will cover the piece that snags your hair. She did it now she says no hair snags now
ohh interesting! thank you for that simple solution, I'll try it and report back.
okay, can confirm that simple trick worked 🙏. I was skeptical thinking my hair would catch a bit of adhesive, no issue! thanks!
For a rear fender that can be removed. Look at the mountain bike industry. The brand Mucky Nutz makes a variety of fenders. As for your helmet Seth from Berm Peak did a video on helmets. I understand your concern was over the screws pulling your hair. The video he did brought to my attention that VA Tech is testing helmets for various sports for impact safety. You may be like me and feel you have a safe her et but when I checked the list I actually had the worst performing helmet. Most people think all helmets will protect with MIPS being the best. Not all MIPS perform the same. I hope this information can help you and your viewers.
That picture of the inside of the helmet is a deal breaker for me too. But, because the MIPS is not an integrated part. It is an add on. I would rather have a helmet without MIPS than to have it like that. It makes the helmet so much hotter. The MIPS stops the air from flowing accross my head.
what's your go to helmet atm?
@bikewithcarolin I love my Giro Aether and my Smith Ignite. I also have a POC Octal Aero I bought to use primarily as a winter helmet. It is the most comfortable helmet I've ever used. Unfortunately, the third time I wore it was in a gravel race and a dude left his line and took me out. The helmet took a hard blow. So, I had to retire it.
I get my helmets by constantly scanning the internet for clearance sales on them. It is usually an outgoing color or a model that has been superceded by a newer one. But, I get nice helmets for really good prices.
I hate cyclists who think that it is okay to spray greasy road gunge over the person behind, but feel smug that they've got their stupid little bits of plastic preventing too much mud being sprayed up their backs.
Plastic bottle cages work for me and are cheap.
Rather than trying to fish items out of a back pocket, I prefer to use a top-tube bag.
thanks for sharing!