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

[Shaun]

Maybe fit the next one above the BB not underneath?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

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.

We're all digging cheap chic here, like that lass in that Pulp song.

 

[ColinJ]

I had one of my cages break like that a few years back.

Another time, the bottle cage bolts came loose and it took me quite a while to discover where the rattling sound was coming from.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I had one of my cages break like that a few years back.

Another time, the bottle cage bolts came loose and it took me quite a while to discover where the rattling sound was coming from.

I was just glad the noise wasn't my knees.

 

[simon the viking]

We're all digging cheap chic here, like that lass in that Pulp song.

Did I ever say that Jarvis Cocker is my bezzie mate?......... Okay I've met him once 1 - 2 (he had his young son with him) and we chatted for a few minutes and he did me a drawing and signed an autograph.... he came across as a nice bloke

 

[screenman]

I was just glad the noise wasn't my knees.

When I got back on the bike a few years ago after a break it took me 20 miles to realize it was my knees.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

When I got back on the bike a few years ago after a break it took me 20 miles to realize it was my knees.

Oh, but you live miles from me, they must have been really bad to affect the sound when I was out on my bike!

 

[ColinJ]

That has just made me think ... I was having problems with my knees when I was very fat, pre-illness. I thought they were shot with arthritis because they were hurting and creaking whenever I walked down stairs or the steep local hills. I hadn't thought about it until now, but the pain and noise have gone so they must have been due to the excessive weight my knees were having to carry!

 

[ayceejay]

A bit of history here but the cage shown belongs on the handlebars containing a corrugated bottle with a straw, if you mount this on the down tube it catches on your plus fours causing breakage. Call this a point of order or velomaniac rule 13.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

A bit of history here but the cage shown belongs on the handlebars containing a corrugated bottle with a straw, if you mount this on the down tube it catches on your plus fours causing breakage. Call this a point of order or velomaniac rule 13.

Well that would explain why it got bust.

But isn't rule 13 about turning your race number upside down?

// If you draw race number 13, turn it upside down.
Paradoxically, the same mind that holds such control over the body is also woefully fragile and prone to superstitious thought. It fills easily with doubt and is distracted by ancillary details. This is why the tape must always be perfect, the machine silent, the kit spotless. And, if you draw the unlucky Number 13, turn it upside downto counter-act its negative energy.

 

[Globalti]

Aluminium work-hardens with lots of flexing and goes brittle.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Ow dear, my broke last week too, Super Glue & Duct Tape!!!

 

[Gravity Aided]

That has just made me think ... I was having problems with my knees when I was very fat, pre-illness. I thought they were shot with arthritis because they were hurting and creaking whenever I walked down stairs or the steep local hills. I hadn't thought about it until now, but the pain and noise have gone so they must have been due to the excessive weight my knees were having to carry!

Must be going around. I had the same thing, and I have only been to Norfolk, Va. (So I know all about Suffolk.)

 

[Gravity Aided]

Aluminium work-hardens with lots of flexing and goes brittle.

All of the flexing occurs at that point, as well. Doomed to failure, due to metal fatigue. Different sized bottles exacerbate the problem. Steel may be heavier, but will flex before failure.

 

[Globalti]

Even more doomed to failure when the aluminium has already been bent through 90 degrees at that point in manufacture.