Kinesis Racelight TK2 - Bottle Holder on seat tube

+paul

On my fantastic new TK2, I would like to put a bottle holder on the seat tube. Unfortunately the boss for the bottle holder interferes with the front dérailleur mounting:



The front dérailleur is a Sora - would a Tiagra mounting band be higher up relative to the chain cage? Alternatively, I need a bottle holder which doesn't require the dérailleur to be moved up the seat tube to create clearance.

Or spacers?

What do you think?

hopper1

Get a couple of spacers, or some washers...

sungod

these work with a band-on fd in between the mountings, although the clearance between the band and the lower cage mount looks pretty close on your frame

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justresting

My Giant Defy 1 came with spacers under the cage, but on another bike I just used a couple of inner tube lock rings.

keef66

I fitted the frame mount for my Road Morph pump to the downtube on mine without needing spacers or anything. Front shifter is a 105 triple. I was considering moving the pump to the top tube so I could fit a second bottle cage. I'll have a look tonight.

redvee

I used a couple of 8mm AF nuts and drilled them out so to remove the thread and put them behind the cage.

+paul

Looks like spacers are the easiest solution. I will have a look at the difference between Tiagra and Sora front dérailleurs at the weekend, just out of interest, and raid the toolbox for some suitable spacers.

Thanks for all your replies!