Many times bottles are lost because the cage and bottle don't mate well together. The lip in the cage has to engage the groove in the bottle properly or the bottle is not secure, able to bounce out of the cage.

This is how it should look. Carbon or metal, doesn't matter. The lip on the cage mates perfectly with the groove in the bottle.




This is how it often looks with poorly made bottles and cages without a proper lip.




Always do the easy and cheap thing first. Make sure the bottles have a proper groove and that they are mating with the lip on the cage.


-Tim-