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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby Mack » April 19th, 2012, 8:54 am

utabintarbo wrote:Odd that I've never lost a bottle. I use King stainless cages, but even when I used cheap alloy ones, never lost one.

Probably just jinxed the *beep* out of myself. :roll:


The speed demon you are would be a likely guess as to why you have not lost one......yet. :wink:
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby Di_bear » April 19th, 2012, 9:18 am

I've never had this problem, which leads me to ask: what the *beep* are you doing to the bottle to make it want to jump ship?!
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby c0nsumer » April 19th, 2012, 9:30 am

Di_bear wrote:I've never had this problem, which leads me to ask: what the *beep* are you doing to the bottle to make it want to jump ship?!


Once a bottle cage gets a bit loose clomping over rough stuff at speed will frequently dislodge them. It'll also break cages if they are sufficiently old/worn/poor quality.
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby Di_bear » April 19th, 2012, 9:32 am

c0nsumer wrote:
Di_bear wrote:I've never had this problem, which leads me to ask: what the *beep* are you doing to the bottle to make it want to jump ship?!


Once a bottle cage gets a bit loose clomping over rough stuff at speed will frequently dislodge them. It'll also break cages if they are sufficiently old/worn/poor quality.


Well, I've been using the same bottle cages since 2006, have bent them numerous times to adjust fit for various sizes of bottles, and have never lost a bottle.
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby c0nsumer » April 19th, 2012, 9:36 am

Di_bear wrote:
c0nsumer wrote:
Di_bear wrote:I've never had this problem, which leads me to ask: what the *beep* are you doing to the bottle to make it want to jump ship?!


Once a bottle cage gets a bit loose clomping over rough stuff at speed will frequently dislodge them. It'll also break cages if they are sufficiently old/worn/poor quality.


Well, I've been using the same bottle cages since 2006, have bent them numerous times to adjust fit for various sizes of bottles, and have never lost a bottle.


Yeah, it's weird... I've had some aluminum ones last for years, and others that snap within a year.

Since going to King Cage stainless ones the same cages have lasted me for a number of years.
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby craig » April 19th, 2012, 9:55 am

I am with some of the other posters here- never lost a bottle from the cage (many different cages, bottles, bikes). You must ride much more aggressively than me. Maybe put a cage on the seat tube vs the downtube.



Pet peeve (grammar alert): lose and loose are often misused. I assume you are losing bottles because they are loose?
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby dirt » April 19th, 2012, 10:12 am

I'd give you my opinion, but I don't ride 10,000 miles a year, so it's the useless opinion of an amateur.
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby c0nsumer » April 19th, 2012, 10:14 am

craig wrote:Maybe put a cage on the seat tube vs the downtube.


There's probably something to this. After all, bottle on the seat tube will put much less force on the cage while the bike bounces up and down.
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby Di_bear » April 19th, 2012, 10:19 am

I also put water bottles in my back pockets and have never lost one. That's one of the reasons why I like men's club cut jerseys over women's: deeper pockets. Perhaps the OP needs to explore different jersey cuts?
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby utabintarbo » April 19th, 2012, 10:26 am

dirt wrote:I'd give you my opinion, but I don't ride 10,000 miles a year, so it's the useless opinion of an amateur.


That's not what makes it useless. :twisted:

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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby Leroi Brown » April 19th, 2012, 11:40 am

The Specialized Ribcage is the absolute bomb! The design allows it to "snug" to fit the bottle, and keep it in place. I've ridden the gnarliest of terrain with these cages, and nary a bottle has been lost.
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby G.Cook » April 19th, 2012, 1:13 pm

Every ride I go on I loose a bottle one way or anothere. Just have a standard cage. Bent the living daylights out of it inward. Try keeping my bottle in my jersey too, still didn't have any luck. Would like to carry a bottle of recovery drink over a camel pack full of water....

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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby BK big fish » April 19th, 2012, 1:13 pm

I have been using a Bontrager X-lite carbon holder and have never lost a bottle. The bottom part broke after 2 years and LBS did a swap out for a new one, gotta love the LBS. RBS and Macomb Trek have done swap outs for me on a few bike parts, thus why I buy from LBS and don't care if I can get it on ebay for less. Just saying, Billy.
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby bergsteiger » April 19th, 2012, 2:58 pm

Di_bear wrote:I also put water bottles in my back pockets and have never lost one. That's one of the reasons why I like men's club cut jerseys over women's: deeper pockets. Perhaps the OP needs to explore different jersey cuts?


some brands of Jerseys have different size pockets. That is why I love the Voler huge pockets when I use them (I feel I could put the kitchen sink in there if I desired). I have another LG Jersey that has tiny pockets in comparison, and some other wool Jerseys in the middle.
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Re: Sick of loosing bottles.

Postby parman » April 19th, 2012, 3:04 pm

Go with the King Iris King Cage and you will never loose another bottle. Unless you drop it out of your hand.
I have not lost a bottle since I switched years ago.

http://www.kingcage.com/products-waterbottle-cages.html
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