Originally Posted by
Hiro11
Side entry cages are the way to go. I use the Lenzyne Flow SL on one mountain bike that has very tight bottle clearances. It works great: hold well, easy to put the bottle back, cheap, durable.
Are side entry cages lower? The ones I've looked at would continue to have the same issue: the bottle doesn't fit under the top-tube (or you bend the cage by forcing the bottle in).
To be clear: the issue with the Kona is that the bottle simply doesn't fit the space from the bottle cage to the top-tube (see the picnic table pic in the first post). Accessing the bottle is a minor issue. I hope that makes sense.