Don't lose your water bottles!
06-09-09, 11:12 AM
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Don't lose your water bottles!
How many waterbottles do you see on the side of the road during your ride?
I see a handful...usually more on bumpier roads.
Here's an inexpensive and quick insurance policy to keep them in place...
Rubberband thru the cage and over the top of the bottle.
If you are losing your bottle because you are clumsy and drop it...that's a different story.
I see a handful...usually more on bumpier roads.
Here's an inexpensive and quick insurance policy to keep them in place...
Rubberband thru the cage and over the top of the bottle.
If you are losing your bottle because you are clumsy and drop it...that's a different story.
06-09-09, 11:17 AM
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or get good cages, that works too.
06-09-09, 11:25 AM
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I would never want to deal with a rubberband every time I took a sip.
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I've only had one bottle rattle off and then I adjusted the cage tighter by bending it in a little.
but the rubber bands look like a good fix if you don't have the metal cages
but the rubber bands look like a good fix if you don't have the metal cages
06-09-09, 11:35 AM
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Agree on getting good cages. I've only dropped bottles (other than fumbling them) once. I hit God's Own Pothole, and out they flew. In addition to that, I pinch-flatted front and rear tires, and twisted my handlebars downward about 15 degrees in the clamp.
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06-09-09, 11:42 AM
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I used them for the NYC Triathlon - the road joints were notorious for ejecting bottles. One of the pros lost his bottle and was stopped by the officials and had to go back and pick it up or get a penalty for "abandoning of equipment".
Aside from the penalty, it's a lousy feeling reaching for a bottle that isn't there and you have many miles before the end.
Metal cages are easy to adjust, carbon is not. Again...this is only an insurance policy.
Aside from the penalty, it's a lousy feeling reaching for a bottle that isn't there and you have many miles before the end.
Metal cages are easy to adjust, carbon is not. Again...this is only an insurance policy.
06-09-09, 11:46 AM
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dont get me wrong, i understand weight and aesthetic concerns fully, but as far as i'm concerned there is no beating the specialized alu bottle cages, never dropped a bottle with one of them, and i live in new jersey where all the public works officials are on the take. (read: pothole repair money spent on hookers and blow)
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My cages have been good to me
, I have never seen a bottle on the road but I'm sure many have lost them
. I have how ever found a Zune
, sockets, wrenches, cell phone ear piece and money.
, I have never seen a bottle on the road but I'm sure many have lost them. I have how ever found a Zune, sockets, wrenches, cell phone ear piece and money.
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+1 on getting a cage that doesn't suck. If you've ever lost a bottle out of your cage then you have the wrong one...
06-09-09, 11:58 AM
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Um... yeah. I had problems losing bottles with my older, really cheap, Al cages. Then I spent some money (about $20 a piece, which was quite traumatic for someone raised in the best sort of cheap/Yankee New England tradition) on some good carbon cages and have not had a problem since. And as maybe some other Mass riders will testify... there's some extra shiatty roads in this great state.
06-09-09, 12:00 PM
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Um... yeah. I had problems losing bottles with my older, really cheap, Al cages. Then I spent some money (about $20 a piece, which was quite traumatic for someone raised in the best sort of cheap/Yankee New England tradition) on some good carbon cages and have not had a problem since. And as maybe some other Mass riders will testify... there's some extra shiatty roads in this great state.
please tell us which "good carbon" cages are $20??
06-09-09, 12:00 PM
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I have crappy cages, but I've improved them by wrapping Coban around the corners. Coban is this self-adhesive latex wrap that you can probably find in the first aid section of a pharmacy. It's held the bottles in there like a champ over some dubious stretches of "road."
06-09-09, 12:01 PM
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Maybe if you wanted to keep them in the cages on top of your car. But on a ride? Really?
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Specialized cages (plastic), and have yet to lose a bottle. Actually, don't recall seeing bottles on the sides of the road either. Go figure.
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