Looks nice. Glad the silly seatclamp is getting dropped but otherwise, boat floated. Cable guides are fine but almost all seem to be in the ugliest place possible? And yes, should have bottle cage bolts, yes maybe people will use it with a frame bag often but not always, stupid to take away options imo
Like? It’s a load more holes in the frame and it looks messy. These (IMO) are much neater.
Provided you have exactly the right number of guides, exactly where the buyer wants them. But when you end up with empty guides, guides on the downtube when you want to route along the toptube, not enough guides, cable ties and baggy cables, all of a sudden they’re ugly as ****.
These ones are pretty hideous tbh just because the locations were picked by throwing darts at a picture of the bike. But done right it’s great.
If there was better availability of bolton guides they’d be a better prospect though. My ragley has 3-hose guides along the top tube, ragley ought to have made 2s and 4s available too, what’s the point of customisability if you can’t customise? This seems the same.