The Singletracks team spends a lot of time in the garage swapping parts and some of our most coveted tools are ones we found at Home Depot and Amazon instead of our LBS.
I love a good-looking bike as much as anyone, but internal routing seems a waste of energy and resources that could be better spent on performance gains.
World Cup mechanic Brad Copeland found himself making repairs under intense pressure at the last two races. He says "the good news is that most of the time we don't have stuff like this happen."
