Originally Posted by
datlas
Yes, this cheap-ass is thrifty.
Thanks for the comments. Since I ride a Ti bike I like metal cages. Al ones are cheap but mark the bottles. Ti is fly but Ti cages are too pricey. I don't really like CF cages as they cannot bend to adjust for slightly different conditions and/or bottles, so Plan A is try a cheap repair job and Plan B is get a new SS cage.
I ride two custom ti bikes with SS King cages. They look pretty darn decent on those bikes and like I said previously, they work. Haven't repaired one yet. (I've been using them since about 2000, replacing my ancient TAs as they tired, then buying more for new bikes. So I have maybe 80k miles with King cages but no tracking on how far any has gone. (But always two per bike, sometimes three once the TAs where replaced.)