Clarks bottle cages - buy cheap buy twice.

[GrumpyGregry]

Now I got a pair of these for £2.50 each so I can't really complain. But that is not going to stop me.

These are Clarks metal bottle cages with two legs that fit into a plastic spine that bolts onto the frame.

With a full bottle if you hit a bump or pothole at speed the two legs drop out of the plastic spine and dump the metal part still wrapped around your bottle into the road where a knobjockey in a 4x4 will take great delight in swerving deliberately onto the opposite side of the road to run over it, only to slow as he passes you to tell you "serves you right".

You will retrieve mangled corpse from carriageway and forlornly place bottle in the second, previously empty, cage which will then disintegrate in a similar fashion before you've even remounted your stead.

You will stuff the various bits of cr@p in your jersey pockets, making you look like you have a spinal deformity, and carry on, and upon arrival at the office will use the cleverness that is the interwebs to order a one piece moulded plastic Lezyne Flowcage HP with a built in mount for your pump.

 

[Frood42]

I took an old bottle cage off a mountain bike that I had from when I was a teenager, it has held up very well and holds my bottles tightly, no problems when hitting potholes.

I then have a second bottle cage from Halfords (http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_385189_langId_-1_categoryId_273927), which I have to sometimes bend back a bit so that it holds the bottles tightly, so far I have only lost one bottle to it (although it was a camelbak podium bottle ), but that will be the last.

Are these the ones you got :shudder: ?
http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/BOCLABC/clarks_alloy_bottle_cage

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I took an old bottle cage off a mountain bike that I had from when I was a teenager, it has held up very well and holds my bottles tightly, no problems when hitting potholes.

I then have a second bottle cage from Halfords (http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_385189_langId_-1_categoryId_273927), which I have to sometimes bend back a bit so that it holds the bottles tightly, so far I have only lost one bottle to it (although it was a camelbak podium bottle ), but that will be the last.

Are these the ones you got :shudder: ?
http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/BOCLABC/clarks_alloy_bottle_cage

That is, indeed, the pos I purchased.

 

[Davidc]

Second part of the title is all too often the case. Inevitable really.

 

[Dusty Bin]

The answer to any bottle cage-related question is 'Elite Custom Race'...

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I had a bottle bounce out of my specialized cage last week, I have two on the bike and the other one is fine. I might just bend it in a bit and see if that fixes it, I was though going along a pretty bumpy bit of road at the time and was also downhill, so wasn't exactly dawdling. I do like the idea of a bottle cage with a pump bit on it though.

 

[DCLane]

That's what I use on the Raleigh Airlite!

And it's been OK for 2500 miles ... although is a bit loose today.

 

[wanda2010]

The answer to any bottle cage-related question is 'Elite Custom Race'...

................ and they have the colours to match my bikes. I feel an early Christmas purchase(s) coming on........ .

Weak. That's what I am when it comes to bike stuff

 

[2Loose]

I have two Clarks cages, neither are like yours though Greg - both work for a start :-)
One is all metal, the other is all molded plastic. Thanks for highlighting the third model so that I can avoid it :-)

 

[sreten]

Hi,

http://www.sportsdirect.com/dunlop-bike-bottle-and-cage-931147?colcode=93114790

Does the job cheap, £3. You need to bend the bracket a little to fit.

Also available in Black :

rgds, sreten.

 

[Bryony]

Now I got a pair of these for £2.50 each so I can't really complain. But that is not going to stop me.

These are Clarks metal bottle cages with two legs that fit into a plastic spine that bolts onto the frame.

With a full bottle if you hit a bump or pothole at speed the two legs drop out of the plastic spine and dump the metal part still wrapped around your bottle into the road where a knobjockey in a 4x4 will take great delight in swerving deliberately onto the opposite side of the road to run over it, only to slow as he passes you to tell you "serves you right".

You will retrieve mangled corpse from carriageway and forlornly place bottle in the second, previously empty, cage which will then disintegrate in a similar fashion before you've even remounted your stead.

You will stuff the various bits of cr@p in your jersey pockets, making you look like you have a spinal deformity, and carry on, and upon arrival at the office will use the cleverness that is the interwebs to order a one piece moulded plastic Lezyne Flowcage HP with a built in mount for your pump.

Shame the two metal legs didn't puncture that guy's tire then it would "serve him right"

 

[Tyke]

Never had a cage let me down in 50 years of riding probably only 40 using bottles but its a long time considering some of the cheap s_it cages I have used.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Never had a cage let me down in 50 years of riding probably only 40 using bottles but its a long time considering some of the cheap s_it cages I have used.

Never had a cage fail before now.

 

[M1ke]

....where a knobjockey in a 4x4 .

What's a 4x4?

 

[Shadow]

What's a 4x4?

Any BMW? Big Benz? Audi?