I realised (of course) that bikes in the 50s and 60s didnt have brazed on mounts, actually thats the point, back when I started almost all bikes needed clamps for everything, bottle cages, carriers, cable routing. The higher end custom built frames had such luxuries and looked neater for it, no ugly clamps. Then later and especially when mountain bikes came in, canti bosses, cable stops, bottle cage mounts were all nicely incorporated even on low end cheapo frames. My point is that since carrier mounts became standard on almost all frames regardless of price......why remove them ? even if you dont think you will use them, one day you may....more options are better surely, removing them, especially from a bike that may very well be used to carry gear seems a backward step to me, they dont add weight and they dont detract from the looks
As mentioned prior but I’m not sure it’s going in ……It’s not the weight of the mount that prevents this. It’s the added material which the frame would need to have the strength to have the weight of whatever the person planned to carry.
Someone buying a lightweight frame doesn’t want an extra 100g adding because the chain stays have to strengthened for the 1 customer out of 1000000 which wanted to carry a tent on their Dogma. Start adding carrier points and manufacturers have to make sure the frame can withstand it and literally nobody wants them on such bikes anyway.
Manufacturers tailor the product to the consumer they expect to buy it. You are not that consumer.
If you want a touring bike with mounts then buy that. If you want a lightweight race bike then don’t expect it to be able to carry 25kg of crap.
It’s really not that hard to understand