I came up with another hack that might be of interest. The down tube bottle cages on the giant are mounted fairly high up on the downtube. This causes issues with the frame bag due to the small frame triangle. To solve this problem, I had to move the bottle cages to the lowest possible position. Since I couldn’t be bothered to go to the hardware store, I had a look in our shared flat’s tool closet where I found some struts of an old Ikea bed. I cut off the sections with the long holes and used them as sliders to lower the bottle cages. Still a little tight but certainly an improvement.
I came up with another hack that might be of interest. The down tube bottle cages on the giant are mounted fairly high up on the downtube. This causes issues with the frame bag due to the small frame triangle. To solve this problem, I had to move the bottle cages to the lowest possible position. Since I couldn’t be bothered to go to the hardware store, I had a look in our shared flat’s tool closet where I found some struts of an old Ikea bed. I cut off the sections with the long holes and used them as sliders to lower the bottle cages. Still a little tight but certainly an improvement.
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