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Does anyone have experience with devices of the nature listed in the thread subject? The girlfriend's bike does not have braze-ons for bottle cage holders, and rather than try to add them I thought I might go the simpler route.
I picked up a Minoura BH-95X which looks like it SHOULD work, but I'm having a very difficult time making the mounting bracket fit properly on the frame. It's the sort of deal where I have to wrap a steel band around, then force the mounting body on the bracket and try to push this screw through the whole thing, and... it sucks.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:26 pm
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Give the tri-style seat mounted bottle cage holders a tri (see what I did there?).
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:10 am
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If you've got the right bottle cages, these seem good. But they're basically just hoseclamps, which would work just about the same I'd bet.
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:47 am
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I have used this type of thing before. It gets the job done ok. Easy enough to install and held the cage in place.
You can't really get it tight enough that the cage won't wiggle a tiny bit as you put the bottle in, but this didn't cause a problem and the cage never moved or made noise while riding. Won't scratch the paint.
But if I were doing this again I might try the clamps first, if they fit with the cage, since they're cheaper and I suspect they could be tightened better.
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:34 am
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The Minoura ones worked for me. I can help you with it when I'm back in town. I might even have some spare ones.
If you don't care about the paint you can use hose clamps around the tangs on almost any bottle cage.
If you don't care about the paint at all and the bike is steel then we could add bottle cage mounts.
alex
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:26 am
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Alex wrote:
The Minoura ones worked for me. I can help you with it when I'm back in town. I might even have some spare ones.
If you don't care about the paint you can use hose clamps around the tangs on almost any bottle cage.
If you don't care about the paint at all and the bike is steel then we could add bottle cage mounts.
alex
I have found that repeurposed bike tube shims solve paint chipping issues as well as provide grip against slippage
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:30 am
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Bo Ttorff wrote:
I have found that repeurposed bike tube shims solve paint chipping issues as well as provide grip against slippage
+1
Make sure that you have the proper type of bottle cage to use the VO version (look closely at the photo) since they have to slip over TOP of the mounting point with no bolts involved.
Also, never thought to try this but would zip-ties work very well?
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:36 am
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Andrew_Squirrel wrote:
Also, never thought to try this but would zip-ties work very well?
Zip-ties are the duct tape of zip-ties
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:39 pm
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Update: The Velo Orange metal bands did the job GREAT. Unfortunately, I wasn't quite capable of making it work with plastic shims on, but the good news is that the paint job was fucked already so it doesn't really matter.
Related: Anybody want a Minoura BH-95X?
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:47 pm
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fourfingersdown wrote:
Give the tri-style seat mounted bottle cage holders a tri (see what I did there?).
butt rockets are never the answer
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:10 am
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Bo Ttorff wrote:
Andrew_Squirrel wrote:
Also, never thought to try this but would zip-ties work very well?
Zip-ties are the duct tape of zip-ties
Let's think about this statement for a moment, shall we
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tehschkott wrote:
Bo Ttorff wrote:
Andrew_Squirrel wrote:
Also, never thought to try this but would zip-ties work very well?
Zip-ties are the duct tape of zip-ties
Let's think about this statement for a moment, shall we
How about: zipties are duct tape's ugly, easy sister. And bailing wire is their mom.
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All I know is that hundreds of zip-ties work damn well on multi-million dollar private jet electric cable assemblies.
If they are good enough for aeroplanes they are good enough for bikes!
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Andrew_Squirrel wrote:
All I know is that hundreds of zip-ties work damn well on multi-million dollar private jet electric cable assemblies.
If they are good enough for aeroplanes they are good enough for bikes!
To amend the statement:
Zip ties are the dirty, dirty whores who do what the decent and God-Fearing shrink wrap over cable in a cabling gantry will not do.
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