Water bottle cage on handle bar?
11-15-14, 11:52 AM
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11-15-14, 12:05 PM
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Yes, but I doubt he ever worried about being cool, except in the sense of avoiding heat stroke.
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11-15-14, 12:25 PM
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how about thinking way outside the box and put the third water bottle in your jersey pocket?
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11-15-14, 01:11 PM
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Shouldn't be concerned about what other people think is cool or not.
2 bottles in cages on frame, this aerobar mount....Profile Design - Aerodrink, this for behind the saddle....Profile Design - Aquarack, all allowing 112 miles non stop for an Ironman. Discard bottle then grab bottle and go at water/feed stations.
11-15-14, 02:13 PM
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I clamped a bottle cage onto my bar tops this last spring because there are times I like to go 50+ miles at a decent speed and don't want to interrupt that rhythm with a refill stop. If it's "uncool," I couldn't possibly care any less.
Wait a minute, though! Not aero? This has me reconsidering. Maybe that's what's preventing me from going 30 miles in an hour. Yeah, that bottle on the bar tops has to be costing me 120 watts!
Wait a minute, though! Not aero? This has me reconsidering. Maybe that's what's preventing me from going 30 miles in an hour. Yeah, that bottle on the bar tops has to be costing me 120 watts!
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11-15-14, 02:18 PM
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this for behind the saddle....Profile Design - Aquarack, all allowing 112 miles non stop for an Ironman.
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11-15-14, 02:19 PM
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Style goes out the window in South Central Texas heat when it's many miles between Hill Country towns and the clock is ticking on a self supported century. The bottles behind the saddle affect steering less on our high speed/rough road descents than bar mounting would, form follows function.
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11-15-14, 03:41 PM
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I just stick a 3d (or 4th) bottle in my jersey pockets. But then I am cheap.
11-15-14, 06:36 PM
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Velo-Orange sells a nice clamp for putting a bottle cage on the handlebars.
VO Handlebar to Bottle Cage Mount - Water Bottles & Cages - Accessories
Most of my rides can be handled by two bottles but on some I've put #3 in the center jersey pocket. On some rides, I've knocked on doors to beg for water. And on more than one occasion, I've refilled from natural springs along the road side. We're lucky to have a lot of such springs around here.
The bottle cage on the handlebars isn't a bad idea for those long hot rides in the middle of nowhere.
VO Handlebar to Bottle Cage Mount - Water Bottles & Cages - Accessories
Most of my rides can be handled by two bottles but on some I've put #3 in the center jersey pocket. On some rides, I've knocked on doors to beg for water. And on more than one occasion, I've refilled from natural springs along the road side. We're lucky to have a lot of such springs around here.
The bottle cage on the handlebars isn't a bad idea for those long hot rides in the middle of nowhere.
11-15-14, 09:09 PM
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Elite do a 1000ml (actually about 930) bottle which has pretty much solved my hydration problems. Might not be able to fit two in your frame.
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11-16-14, 12:50 AM
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There aren't where I ride, so I assume others have similar situations. I do five or six self-supported double centuries each year in our local coast range. I pass the last house twenty-three miles in and there is only one campground that has running water part of the year out there.
My choices are to carry enough water to make it the whole way, bring a filter to get water from creeks, or trust the water flowing over the rock walls to not have giardia (or worse). I've done all three and carrying is the best for me. That means three on the bike, one of which is on the handlebar, and two or three more on the body. (We don't have hot weather here and I tend to start sometime between midnight and 3:00 AM, so I don't use as much water as the Texans.)
My choices are to carry enough water to make it the whole way, bring a filter to get water from creeks, or trust the water flowing over the rock walls to not have giardia (or worse). I've done all three and carrying is the best for me. That means three on the bike, one of which is on the handlebar, and two or three more on the body. (We don't have hot weather here and I tend to start sometime between midnight and 3:00 AM, so I don't use as much water as the Texans.)
11-18-14, 12:35 AM
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There aren't where I ride, so I assume others have similar situations. I do five or six self-supported double centuries each year in our local coast range. I pass the last house twenty-three miles in and there is only one campground that has running water part of the year out there.
My choices are to carry enough water to make it the whole way, bring a filter to get water from creeks, or trust the water flowing over the rock walls to not have giardia (or worse). I've done all three and carrying is the best for me. That means three on the bike, one of which is on the handlebar, and two or three more on the body. (We don't have hot weather here and I tend to start sometime between midnight and 3:00 AM, so I don't use as much water as the Texans.)
My choices are to carry enough water to make it the whole way, bring a filter to get water from creeks, or trust the water flowing over the rock walls to not have giardia (or worse). I've done all three and carrying is the best for me. That means three on the bike, one of which is on the handlebar, and two or three more on the body. (We don't have hot weather here and I tend to start sometime between midnight and 3:00 AM, so I don't use as much water as the Texans.)
time trial seaway post holsters seem ideal.
11-18-14, 07:18 AM
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Hah! All those classic racing pictures have their bottles on the bars because they likely didn't have bosses on the frame tubes then. Go behind the saddle if you want to look cooler with more water. Especially a single bottle. A lot of people mention the jersey pockets, but I hate that weight pulling on my neck...
11-18-14, 07:54 AM
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Hah! All those classic racing pictures have their bottles on the bars because they likely didn't have bosses on the frame tubes then. Go behind the saddle if you want to look cooler with more water. Especially a single bottle. A lot of people mention the jersey pockets, but I hate that weight pulling on my neck...
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11-18-14, 08:00 AM
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They may not have had brazed on bosses, but they certainly had the option of using clamp-on frame mount bottles and many did. HB bottles were a matter of convenience. There was less support in that era, and fewer spectators along the road to hand up water so riders carried their own, and did it in a way that was best suited to their needs.
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11-18-14, 08:01 AM
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11-18-14, 08:52 AM
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You're right, I'll probably ride my next century in the same manner. Should be no problem to have a negative split being 20 lbs lighter for the way back after I drink all that water (and obviously piss like a fountain) and chuck the bottles on the side of the road.
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I use a Camelbak. Seems better to me than bottles on the handlebars, behind the seat, in jersey pockets.