Certainly, as with my comment about hydration hip-packs above, I understand that different stuff works for different people. Brand aside, I'm not into the in-frame storage for a few reasons.
For one, I'd personally rather have a regular-looking tubeset and more external mounting points than the e-bike battery aesthetic on everything.
None of these systems, at least combined with internal cable routing, are very weatherproof and I've pulled all sorts of gross stuff out of customer frames working on bikes. I've also pulled out a soft bottle full of water that a rider had forgotten, which was sort of funny - out of sight out of mind I suppose.
The space is also quite restrictive in terms of what you can carry.
Still, if it works for you that's excellent but even then, why not have both? plenty of room for more mounts on internal-storage-equipped frames.
July 21, 2022, 8:51 a.m. - Andrew Major
Certainly, as with my comment about hydration hip-packs above, I understand that different stuff works for different people. Brand aside, I'm not into the in-frame storage for a few reasons. For one, I'd personally rather have a regular-looking tubeset and more external mounting points than the e-bike battery aesthetic on everything. None of these systems, at least combined with internal cable routing, are very weatherproof and I've pulled all sorts of gross stuff out of customer frames working on bikes. I've also pulled out a soft bottle full of water that a rider had forgotten, which was sort of funny - out of sight out of mind I suppose. The space is also quite restrictive in terms of what you can carry. Still, if it works for you that's excellent but even then, why not have both? plenty of room for more mounts on internal-storage-equipped frames.