Well I didn't know that could happen (bottle cages)

[Andrew_Culture]

I was trying to diagnose a rattle on my SingleSpeed and found this:

I only got 4,075 miles out of it. PAH! Don't make 'em like they used to etc etc.

 

[mattobrien]

Just bend a wire coat hanger, that'll do you for another 4,000 miles.

 

[screenman]

That is what you get for not buying carbon fibre.

Shame really before it broke it looked like it might have had some antique value.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

My touring/commuting bike has 2 of those old bendy aluminium bottle cages. I like those, because they'll hold any size bottle (just bend them to fit) .

 

[Dave 123]

I found out the same thing last week...... Ooooooh, spooky!

 

[Peteaud]

Gaffa tape it, plenty of miles left in it yet

 

[Flying Dodo]

Get a cheap plastic one from Halfords or your LBS - it'll be lighter than carbon fibre as well!

 

[screenman]

Get a cheap plastic one from Halfords or your LBS - it'll be lighter than carbon fibre as well!

No so no, Andrew has his street cred to think about.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

No so no, Andrew has his street cred to think about.

Exactly, I can't be seen to have any street cred.

Our local bike doctor gave me a plastic one for free

 

[screenman]

Exactly, I can't be seen to have any street cred.

Our local bike doctor gave me a plastic one for free

You have gone down in my estimation, I had you as a Carbon or titanium sort.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

You have gone down in my estimation, I had you as a Carbon or titanium sort.

Whatever gave you that impression? I'm not trying to be a reverse snob, but I have a steel framed singlespeed that I built myself for £70 and a geared bike that cost me £300

...and 37 KOMs

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I just went and had a look at my Elite bottle cage. It's only done 3,000 miles but still looks as good as new and ready for 10 times that. Yours looks like it's taken a beating. Have you dropped the bike (sideways impact) at some point?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I just went and had a look at my Elite bottle cage. It's only done 3,000 miles but still looks as good as new and ready for 10 times that. Yours looks like it's taken a beating. Have you dropped the bike (sideways impact) at some point?

I've fallen off a few times and one of my clients is based on an industrial estate that looks like it was paved as a concrete homage to Ypres circa 1917.

 

[screenman]

Whatever gave you that impression? I'm not trying to be a reverse snob, but I have a steel framed singlespeed that I built myself for £70 and a geared bike that cost me £300

...and 37 KOMs

Just the fact you are from Suffolk every body there has lots of money and big houses. I know that because I have been to Southwold.

 

[400bhp]