Bottle Cage: no braze ons

gbsahne001
gbsahne001 Posts: 1,974
edited April 2011 in The workshop
Any bright ideas on how to mount a bottle cage with no braze ons and not damage / scratch the frame? I've seen jubilee clips used and tie wraps but none of these seem to work that well.
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Get the right cage (with some form of 'base) and use double sided adhesive pads and cable ties and it won't be going anywhere.

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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    we use adhesive hook n loop (rip off velcro) pads from maplin, i reckon they would hold a cage on

    http://www.maplin.co.uk/hook-and-loop-pads-36120

    we use them to attached it equipment to walls (like card readers and stuff) mighty sticky!
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Could you mount them on your seatpost, like what those tri-affa-leets do?
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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    wrap frame with self-amalgamating tape, run zip ties around it and through the cage. The self-amalgamating tape acts as a grippy surface/protection around the frame.

    This has the slight side-effect of looking cack.
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  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,974
    cjcp wrote:
    Could you mount them on your seatpost, like what those tri-affa-leets do?

    Unfortunately not, as I have a Carradice saddlebag there
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  • naffa
    naffa Posts: 126
    I've done this successfully by using a thin piece of rubber (like an old inner tube) under the cage and then cable tied around the frame.
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  • Pooter
    Pooter Posts: 68
    You can buy a rubber strap-on here

    http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/apb-300-b ... -17250470/
  • Drysuitdiver
    Drysuitdiver Posts: 474
    Pooter wrote:
    You can buy a rubber strap-on here

    http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/apb-300-b ... -17250470/

    works well too.
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  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    Pooter wrote:
    You can buy a rubber strap-on here

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  • Berk Bonebonce
    Berk Bonebonce Posts: 1,245
    You did't say what type of frame material we are talking.

    A frame builder can drill and braze bottle mounts onto a steel frame but paintwork will be damaged. And a frame builder can drill and fit fixings in the case of an aluminium frame without damaging the paintwork.
  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,974
    Aluminium, although whether the crash means that this frame is now viable and hence the original question moot, remains to be seen
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  • Twostage
    Twostage Posts: 987
    Saw this in last months cycling plus :-

    http://www.zyro.co.uk/brand/ZEFAL/ZÉFAL/ZEBC1080/GIZMO%20.aspx

    (can't get the URL tag to work :evil: )
  • OSOH
    OSOH Posts: 153
    Just a thought...how about a bottle cage that mounts on the handlebars? Seen a few on Ebay...
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