Bottle cage for weight weenies

littledove44

Only 27g as opposed to my old Elites at 40g
Carbon, nice
£9.99 on ebay from china.

I am going to go so much faster.

ednino

I use the Planet X ones.

They are £20 for 22g

simon_masterson

Ever heard of gullibility tax?

But at least you didn't pay £80.

team47b

Have a swig out of the water bottle before you set off and save the 27g weight of your new cage, you are now weightless

DiscoBoy

Let us know how well they hold, compared to the elites.

cat_with_no_tail

That's not a cage for weight weenies, THIS is a cage for weight weenies:

http://www.rosebikes.co.uk/article/tune ... /aid:51683

10g and includes a bottle.

Can't imagine it does a great job of retaining your bottle though.

charlie_potatoes

Simon Masterson wrote:

Ever heard of gullibility tax?

No

ednino wrote:

I use the Planet X ones.

They are £20 for 22g

+1 These are great value. They sell a pair for £35 delivered

rickeverett

I use gaffa tape.

20p for 3g

thegreatdivide

Simon Masterson wrote:

Ever heard of gullibility tax?

But at least you didn't pay £80.

If you're referring to the Tacx carbon cages, Planet X were doing them for £20 at Christmas and the week before last.

rolf_f

I have a pair of Chinese carbon bottle cages. Bloody terrible things! Carbon as fat as your hand, lacquer that scratches easily, scratches the bottle and the heel of one fractured. And it gripped the bottle too tightly (squashed it a bit!). In contrast, the insanely expensive Look cages on my Look are brilliant in every way a bottle cage can be. The bike that I inflicted the Chinese cages on then had Elite Customs (which, after a while, looked just as bad as the Chinese carbon crap but at least functioned far better) and I've now replaced them with Blackburn stainless steel cages which appear to be far superior though most would say they don't look as good.

Verdict. Chinese carbon - Look great, cheap, functionally sh1te, light, dire engineering, wouldn't touch with a bargepole. Elite Custom - Look a bit crap, cheaper, pretty light, well engineered, functionally fairly good, make a mess of the bottles unless replaced regularly. Blackburn Stainless - don't look trendy. Not that light, functionally great. Pretty cheap. Look Carbon - superbly made, very light, functionality excellent. Cost a bloomin' fortune.

I notice Ebay is now awash with badly made fake Look cages.

littledove44

DiscoBoy wrote:

Let us know how well they hold, compared to the elites.

Definitely not as well. The elite has the little retention bend at the top so the bottle clips in. These new ones are smooth.

I may chuck a few bottles away on our local roads.

phillips1965

Arundel mandible. Just awesome but not cheap.

Garry H

Velcro!

simon_masterson

thegreatdivide wrote:

Simon Masterson wrote:

Ever heard of gullibility tax?

But at least you didn't pay £80.

If you're referring to the Tacx carbon cages, Planet X were doing them for £20 at Christmas and the week before last.

I'd be reluctant to pay even that, but more thinking of Looks and the like; anything that'll set you back up to £100 a pair. I'll stick to metal and plastic. It's a bottle cage.

rolf_f

Simon Masterson wrote:

thegreatdivide wrote:

Simon Masterson wrote:

Ever heard of gullibility tax?

But at least you didn't pay £80.

If you're referring to the Tacx carbon cages, Planet X were doing them for £20 at Christmas and the week before last.

I'd be reluctant to pay even that, but more thinking of Looks and the like; anything that'll set you back up to £100 a pair. I'll stick to metal and plastic. It's a bottle cage.

I reckon the Look cages will cost me a pound a year each over forty years or so. The Chinese crap ones and the Elites worked out considerably more expensive!

I did try the Elite cages on the Look when I bought it but they looked terrible. If you are buying a stupidly expensive bike then sometimes stupidly expensive matching cages are the only way to go. Rather than £80 for a pair of cages, I look at it as a £2080 frame with cages rather than a £2000 frame without!

simon_masterson

Rolf F wrote:

Simon Masterson wrote:

thegreatdivide wrote:

Simon Masterson wrote:

Ever heard of gullibility tax?

But at least you didn't pay £80.

If you're referring to the Tacx carbon cages, Planet X were doing them for £20 at Christmas and the week before last.

I'd be reluctant to pay even that, but more thinking of Looks and the like; anything that'll set you back up to £100 a pair. I'll stick to metal and plastic. It's a bottle cage.

I reckon the Look cages will cost me a pound a year each over forty years or so. The Chinese crap ones and the Elites worked out considerably more expensive!

I did try the Elite cages on the Look when I bought it but they looked terrible. If you are buying a stupidly expensive bike then sometimes stupidly expensive matching cages are the only way to go. Rather than £80 for a pair of cages, I look at it as a £2080 frame with cages rather than a £2000 frame without!

No cages at all makes for a cleaner look though!