Can Anyone Identify the Bottle Cage Maker
 

They came on a bike I acquired and are very lightweight and well made.

I have bent them back and forth to accommodate every size bottle imaginable and they have never dropped a single time. I need one more for the 3rd, outside-the-triangle braze-ons, and I also plan to replace my others...

Thanks in advance!

The double F logo = Forte

Forte is one of Performance Bike's house brands along with Elite, Axiom and a few others.

There are dozens of similar brands which make cages just like that. The Forte cage is really just a typical, run of the mill cage and most aluminum alloy cages are virtual indestructible.

I would not hesitate to buy a Minoura, Topeak or similar cage. If you must have Forte then https://www.performancebike.com/shop...m-cage-20-0587.


-Tim-

I have some Forte cages like that, and the material is stainless steel, not aluminum.

Steel.

https://www.performancebike.com/shop...d-cage-20-1059

Performance Inc. sells but did not make it.. I assume you just wanted to buy one ...



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Thanks all! Stainless steel. No wonder they're thinner and similar in weight to my other alu cages. The design resembles the Blackburn Swerve cage, but that's titanium, 29g and a ridiculous 60 bucks!

I've always suspected the Forte cages were really made by Blackburn.
And a big advantage of stainless steel is that it does not leave ugly dark marks on bottles, (unlike aluminum).

or the "Yung Foo" compsany brand stamps both , for different contracting importers.. I expect jim blackburn went off shore long ago..