Simplicity.
A trail:
A bike:

A gear, or maybe two:

What more do you need?*
*[In my case you also need like eight other bikes, but I’m going to keep acting all self-righteous about my phony commitment to simplicity anyway.]
Well, it turns out you need a lot. I recently joked about “needing a dropper post for your dropper post’s dropper post,” but little did I know how close we were, for a reader has alerted me to the existence of this:
