mrfreeze wrote:
timbasile wrote:
What about (in addition to the various elastic type solutions) just going to home depot and getting some grip tape?
I'd say tape it to the inside of the cage, but it's much easier to wrap it around the bottle. I used to do that back when I kept the flat kit in a cage, and it made it much more difficult to remove. Though with a flat kit, you're hopefully never using it during a race, or max once.
I like that idea! I was a bit worried that the grip tape would either be too tacky or would eventually rub the carbon fiber through, so in addition to the zip-ties I actually also put 2 strips of duct tape vertically on my Camelbak Podium bottles, one strip on each side of the bottle. So far no ejections in half a dozen fairly bumpy races or many dozen long training rides on paths and roads. The ties with duct tape make it tight enough that I do need to use a slight twisty motion, both to remove and to insert the bottles, but I've practiced that and am comfortable doing it without looking while staying in aero position.
i've never seen a bottle eject under any circumstances if:
1. you don't freeze the bottle;
2. you use a proper cage for the purpose. in this case the proper cage would either be:
dawn to dusk, say, kaptive 10 or kaptive 14; or
xlab gorrilla or gorilla xt. basically the same cage;
3. your bottle isn't too terribly thin or flimsy.
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman