In need of options
Let’s have some recommendations for good off road bottle cages, that won’t eject the bottle at the first sign of a bump!
A couple of pre requisites though:
Really don’t like giant plastic fantastics
Side entry would be good, for access with a frame bag fitted
Not interested in crazy prices like king cages (can’t justify nearly £100 for a pair of cages)
Many thanks
Fabric cage lost bottle a couple of times in about six months but it was enough for me to ditch it. They just need to make a more secure version. Wouldn’t care if you couldn’t grab it whilst riding. Only really drink when I stop.
I have a “regular” King Cage titanium, seems to work just fine; now I see there’s a collaboration with Wolf Tooth (Morse) which allows for some vertical adjustment, but I can’t justify the switch.
l.e. You could also look at Wolf Tooth’s “B-Rad” stuff, which allows for offset bottle mounts, among other things.
Any thoughts on which side for side exit? I’d automatically just order two right hand exit ones but when you look on spesh website, they seem to recommend left on diwntube, right on seat tube?
Each to their own I guess
If you get two RH (or two LH) then they will open to different sides of the bike when mounted on downtube and seat tube so if you want them both to open to the same side you need one of each then mount accordingly.
As for the original question – I’ve a Spesh something or other that’s side exit and I’ve yet to lose a bottle from it.
Spesh Zee side entry here. Had it for years and never lost a bottle, Alps, Black Runs at Antur Stiniog, Snowdown, etc. Just works. If you can find one buy it!> I have been looking for ages and they just don’t seem to be around any more.
Syncros Taylor 1.0.
I order one each year to color match my bike.. only broken one due to a fairly ‘interesting’ crash where I got high sided and the only place I could reconnect with the ground on landing was by stamping through the front triangle (remarkably accurately considering what else was going on)
they’ve never dropped a bottle though and pick your color/exit side.
Had a Blackburn mtn cage snap on me (well on my 7 year old daughters bike to be acurate) and they wouldn’t honour the lifetime warranty so I won’t be using them again………..