I am a total div

[roubaixtuesday]

Ah right, ok. I’ve done that too. My point still stands, those ancient plastic bottles do look pretty crap

OK, I asked for it.

Any recommendations for nice bidons for the nice cages on the nice bicycle?

I quite like this one...

 

[vickster]

That style is good

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Oh all these beacons of honesty! Who hasn't fitted an unfamiliar bottle cage upside down? 😄

(I fitted an Elite cage wrongly 4 years ago, and then again when I fitted a Bontrager to my daughter's bike.... but that was only last weekend). 😔

 

[C R]

OK, I asked for it.

Any recommendations for nice bidons for the nice cages on the nice bicycle?

I quite like this one... View attachment 522265

Is that a metal one? Our children have steel ones of that shape, they don't quite hold in the cage due to their shape and weight.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Is that a metal one? Our children have steel ones of that shape, they don't quite hold in the cage due to their shape and weight.

Ahem. Wasn't intended as a serious suggestion, just an allusion to the err... ...innovative way I originally fixed the cage.

Serious suggestions are welcome though!

 

[C R]

Ahem. Wasn't intended as a serious suggestion, just an allusion to the err... ...innovative way I originally fixed the cage.

Serious suggestions are welcome though!

I'm in the middle of a rather dull sprint refinement session, so had a sense of humour bypass 😊.

I use elite corsas with a cover, 750ml size

View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elite-Unisexs-BT914166-Parts-Transparent-Rot/dp/B00G8QHT9U/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=elite%2Bcorsa%2Bwater%2Bbottle&qid=1589468862&sprefix=elite%2Bcor&sr=8-3&th=1&psc=1


They don't seem to have the model with the spout cover any more, and only the 950ml seems available. I quite like them, flow is very good.

 

[vickster]

I'm in the middle of a rather dull sprint refinement session, so had a sense of humour bypass 😊.

I use elite corsas with a cover, 750ml size

View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elite-Unisexs-BT914166-Parts-Transparent-Rot/dp/B00G8QHT9U/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=elite%2Bcorsa%2Bwater%2Bbottle&qid=1589468862&sprefix=elite%2Bcor&sr=8-3&th=1&psc=1


They don't seem to have the model with the spout cover any more, and only the 950ml seems available. I quite like them, flow is very good.

They are decent but a bit lacking in class for a bespoke steel bike?

 

[fossyant]

You can't put crap bottles like that on a new bike, you scruff. Even I have matching bottles for my MTB.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

You can't put crap bottles like that on a new bike, you scruff. Even I have matching bottles for my MTB.

OK, OK I get it!!!

(Actually, the nearly new bottle in the background would be used, together with a matching one. The really crappy ones pictured were dragged out of the bottom of the drawer in the hope that they'd fit the cage. But even that one is a bit cheap and nasty, and one of my sons has lost the matching one, the div)

 

[C R]

They are decent but a bit lacking in class for a bespoke steel bike?

I am a utilitarian, function over form every time.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I had one of those fancy dan plastic bottle cages on one bike for ages when somebody pointed out it was upside down. I used to wonder why it was a struggle to get the bottle in and out.

 

[monkers]

Yup DIV - Did Inverted Version. I really like the look of that Swallow btw - very nice indeed.

 

[hoopdriver]

A little bit of brute force?

Cage fighting?

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

I bet you never read instruction leaflets.

Only females need to read instructions. Men just figure out how things are really supposed to go together by trial and error!

 

[C R]

Only females need to read instructions. Men just figure out how things are really supposed to go together by trial and error!

That's buy three, break the first two and get the third one right.