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Full frame bag and waterbottles up front somehow?
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Or smaller toptube bag with bottle in traditional place?
Yes
Try them and find what works for you. I used a Tangle with bottles. Peeps like @skinny used a full bag with bladder. Still others had bottles mounted around the bike so you could use a framebag full of kit + bottles. Depends on what you 'need' to carry.
Look for "BTA mounts", fork bottle cages, temporary bottle cage mounts, zip tie bottle cages anywhere, etc.
hippy-
My forks will have bottle mounts on them, if I need, but wondering whether that's efficient or not. Not super easy to grab, for example. Will also be able to mount an extra bottle on the underside of the downtube, but a little worried about roadcrud coating that.
I need to make a proper kit list but currently planning on sleeping bag, bivvy, inflatable matt as being the main bulky items.
The rest of the stuff will be clothing, food and tools/spares.
Should I giving a shit about aerodynamics? My (limited) understanding is that frontal area matters the most, so a full framebag seems to make the most sense...
gillies
TCR related question
Full frame bag and waterbottles up front somehow?
Or smaller toptube bag with bottle in traditional place?
Will probably have a large Apidura seatpack but wary of packing that too full as I don't want it fucking with climbing cadence when standing up.
What solutions are there for having waterbottles up front?