Originally Posted by
robow
In the bike industry, of which bicycle touring is an extremely small subset (though we wish it wasn't so), occasionally you do get an innovation that truly makes our lives better. But unfortunately IMO, we often get change almost for the sake of change itself, creating planned obsolescence. How else do you get the masses to buy new stuff ?
I guess there's an argument for saying you want whatever the bike shops where you're going are likely to have spares for in case you need them. So nothing too ancient or too cutting-edge.