Just a note on bike tourers

I have a new respect for people who do full out bike tours. They often take roads that aren’t paved and pull 60lbs of weight up hills. People who tour often have some serious willpower. I also finally am realizing why so many cyclists who do tours use mountain bikes. Having a high bottom bracket and mountain bike tires would have been amazing a couple days ago. I think if I could design my ultimate touring bike it would be a really short top tube, decent sized seat tube with a high bottom bracket, wide fork and chainstays, front & rear rack, easy laptop access pocket, 700×32 tires with small tread (think cyclocross), and both standard drop bar brakes and the interceptor brakes for holding the bars close to the stem. Oh yeah, it would also weigh negative pounds so the only weight would be the gear. That would be awesome. The granny chainring has come in ridiculously handy from all of the headwinds, so the bike would definitely have a triple crankset with granny chainring.