Originally Posted by D1andonlyDman

But a $2000 bike will outperform a $200 bike, by a noticeable amount. I don't believe that a $20 bottle cage will do any better at holding a water bottle than a $2 cage will.

In any case, I should come clean, I recently bought several bottle cages for $3 each, at a bike swap faire in San Diego a couple of weeks ago. But I needed a couple of them in a hurry. If I could have waited 2-4 weeks, I'd have gotten them from China on ebay, for less than $2 each. In any case, I generally buy either plastic or painted Aluminum tubular cages. I usually pay no more than $2 each for the plastic ones, and no more than $3 each for the aluminum ones.

I can't understand the purpose of spending $20+ each on Carbon Fiber bottle cages.