I recognize the bottle cage and in my experience it is atrocious. In fact, I bought it discounted at 15% or so of the original price. Other than for pondering what makes good and what bad design, it is not really good for anything

. This is not to diminish from anything else you have got. Out of curiosity, what are those grips?
So far had no issues with the bottle cage. They hug my bottles very well even on cobblestone road. The grips are Selle Royal Mano Royalgel Grips.