I'm racing Harryman Half next weekend, a course notorious for launching bottles -- at least from my experience. Does anyone know of a product that can help keep your bottles secure? Did a forum search, google search, Amazon search and didn't find anything. I have X-lab carbon gorilla cages and I like to keep my bottles behind my seat. I don't want BTA or on the downtube. I'm thinking if I can't find a solution, I'll just tie a plastic bungee strap with a middle loop -- to go over the nozzle -- onto either side of the cage and snap that on and off the bottle.
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Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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Elastic hair ties: https://www.amazon.com/...amp;sr=1-14&th=1
Cinch through the bottle cage and pull over the bottle valve.
Cinch through the bottle cage and pull over the bottle valve.
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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I'm a fan of edpm rubber bands for that.
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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Zip-ties have worked a charm. No ejections since starting to use them, not even over the thick rubber mats placed over the railroad tracks at Chattanooga. Wove them in and around the outside of each cage. Adjustable tension is nice. Nope, not embarrassed about the look. Yep, rolling 3 BTS to eliminate down-tube and seat-tube bottles.
See also next-to-last-pic here https://www.triathlete.com/...s-giant-trinity-tri/
See also next-to-last-pic here https://www.triathlete.com/...s-giant-trinity-tri/
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [mrfreeze]
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LOL on the zip ties. I stumbled on this just the other day when I needed a quick fix after the lower screw came off the bottle cage. I used a zip tie to hold it together and it worked like a charm in St. George! Preventing bottle rocket wasn't the intended use but it worked like a charm!
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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I use a couple turns of electronically tape on the top left and right part of the cage.
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [mrfreeze]
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I think I'm going to go with your suggestion of an interwoven zip tie. BRILLIANT! The only modification is that I'm going to use black zip ties and keep the color scheme stealth. Thanks!
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [mrfreeze]
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Add another vote to using zip ties to add tension. I've been doing it with some no-name ali-express carbon cages to years.
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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For those that have a bottle they like to reuse and your bottle cages are risky, try putting one of those silicone "livestrong" style bracelets around the bottle. It adds a ton of grip to the bottle itself.
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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https://rappstar.com/2007/11/18/anti-ejection-cages/
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [mrfreeze]
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Hey look mom i bought a pair of $90 carbon fiber bottle cages that don't work unless I bind them with zip ties.
So much fail.
So much fail.
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [Motoarch]
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Motoarch wrote:
Hey look mom i bought a pair of $90 carbon fiber bottle cages that don't work unless I bind them with zip ties. So much fail.
I did get a good laugh out of this! Mainly because both the carbon fiber cages were free with the xLab BTS mount on the $400 2009 Trek TTX 9.5 that I rode to 66th bike overall this past weekend at Gulf Coast :)
So much fail, yes - and so much win for the money! I was going to switch over to black zipties but now I might leave them or go with an obnoxious color just to draw even more attention away from the carbon fiber :)
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [mrfreeze]
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mrfreeze wrote:
I was going to switch over to black zipties but now I might leave them or go with an obnoxious color just to draw even more attention away from the carbon fiber :)Need to color-match the frame.
https://www.amazon.com/Self-Locking-Electric-Connecter-Boxwood-Hedges-etc/dp/B08K8GPYXQ/ref=asc_df_B08K8GPYXQ/
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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Soccer lace covers? They're elastic and a big rubber band. The kid's sizes might work and double as a partial shoe cover for a TT. Lol.
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [jrielley]
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I've done the same.
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [mrfreeze]
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I wish there was a like button.
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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tire pressure?
Andy Tetmeyer (I work at HED)
Andy Tetmeyer (I work at HED)
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [andy tetmeyer]
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andy tetmeyer wrote:
tire pressure?Hi Andy! Funny enough I have HED Jet 60 plus front (80 psi) and HED Jet Plus disc (85 psi). Problem is the course has nasty frost heaves in the road and when you hit these on descents, shit goes flying sometimes!!
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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PSI sounds highish but I have no other numbers about you or your tire sizes. I totally get the frost heave thing.
Since I am invested in this thread then the only thing left to do is play the curmudgeon card and suggest bending your metal bottle cages in so they hold the bottles tighter.
good luck at the race.
Andy Tetmeyer (I work at HED)
Since I am invested in this thread then the only thing left to do is play the curmudgeon card and suggest bending your metal bottle cages in so they hold the bottles tighter.
good luck at the race.
Andy Tetmeyer (I work at HED)
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andy tetmeyer: May 10, 22 12:19
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [andy tetmeyer]
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andy tetmeyer wrote:
PSI sounds highish but I have no other numbers about you or your tire sizes. I totally get the frost heave thing. Since I am invested in this thread then the only thing left to do is play the curmudgeon card and suggest bending your metal bottle cages in so they hold the bottles tighter.
good luck at the race.
Front tire GP 5000 23mm ; back tire GP 5000 25mm -- Rider Weight 178 lbs. Cervelo P2.
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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we're eerily the same weight.
on perfect roads with those tires and wheels I would race at ~ 75 psi front and rear. anything less than perfect would be more like 65 psi.
Andy Tetmeyer (I work at HED)
on perfect roads with those tires and wheels I would race at ~ 75 psi front and rear. anything less than perfect would be more like 65 psi.
Andy Tetmeyer (I work at HED)
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [andy tetmeyer]
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andy tetmeyer wrote:
we're eerily the same weight. on perfect roads with those tires and wheels I would race at ~ 75 psi front and rear. anything less than perfect would be more like 65 psi.
Are you also 5 foot 9.5 inches (without shoes)?
Part of the course has newly-paved, baby butt smooth asphalt ; other parts of the course -- not so much. I will take your suggestion of going down to 75 PSI. Thanks.
Re: Bottle Cage Straps to keep Bottles from Launching [BT_DreamChaser]
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nope, I am shorter without shoes.
Andy Tetmeyer (I work at HED)
Andy Tetmeyer (I work at HED)
My earlier comment was a bit snarky. I recently re-found this article, on kintsugi, or the art of repair, and for me it offers a generative way of thinking about things and situations that call for repair (of the "thing") and adaptation (of my mind toward the repaired thing).