+1 for the King Iris cages. Just bought them last week, and very happy with them. Work great w/ 23oz metal bottles and are slightly bendable. Good stuff. FWIW, I got 'em from these guys on ebay: http://tinyurl.com/4xa9cdz
On 4/4/11, Jim Cloud <cloud...@aol.com> wrote: > Just a personal opinion, but I don't think the Nitto cages are > particularly sturdy. Very handsome, and obviously well made, but not > very tough. I've had two of them on my Riv Road and took them off, > after bending one somewhat askew when I shouldered my bike to carry it > up some stairs. At the time, I was using a conventional large size > plastic water bottle (not a Klean Kanteen). I think the larger size > of the Kleen Kanteen (27 oz.) would be particularly ill suited for a > Nitto cage, although the 18 oz. bottle would probably work > sufficiently well. > > At this point, I'm using a classic Specialites T..A. steel water > bottle cage, which is sturdy as all git out, and another T.A. cage > that was originally marketed for the "Randonneur" aluminum water > bottles that T.A. made. These cages are squarish in configuration, > and held the aluminum bottle that was either 750ml or 1000ml in size. > The original water bottle had a "Grolsch" beer type cap. Just by > luck, I purchase a couple of Laken Prisma water bottles from REI last > year that are virtually the same form factor and have a sport cap, > with a capacity of 1000 ml > > Jim Cloud > Tucson, AZ > > On Apr 4, 6:24 pm, Eric Norris <campyonly...@me.com> wrote: >> I had one of those fail, but not as quickly as yours. VO promptly sent me >> a replacement, and I haven't had any trouble since then (about a year >> ago). >> >> During that time, on another bike, a genuine Nitto cage broke. I checked >> with Rivendell, and the said it was out of warranty. >> >> Bike stuff breaks. Some manufacturers stand behind their stuff better than >> others. >> >> --Eric N >> Sent from the iPad 2 >> >> On Apr 4, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Benedikt <neutralbuoya...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > I had two VO Retro Waterbottle cages >> >http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/accessories/water-bottles-cage... >> > and I a weld broke on one within 50 miles. Granted I may have >> > squeezed it a little to much but it seemed pretty flimsy. >> >> > I just picked up two King Cage Iris >> > cageshttp://www.kingcage.com/assets/img/Cage3.jpg >> > and, while I haven't rode with them yet, they look far superior. Less >> > welds. Stronger looking welds. Thicker tubing. They appear to hold >> > the Kleen Canteen waterbottles pretty snug and standard plastic >> > cycling waterbottles VERY well. >> >> > On Mar 14, 10:01 am, Forrest <ftme...@me.com> wrote: >> >> For those of you who have used them (or I guess ridden in close >> >> proximity to them), do the Laken aluminum watter bottles sold by RBW >> >> tend to rattle in cages such as the King and the Nitto? Or pretty >> >> solid/silent in those? Thanks. -- Forrest >> >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA *...in terms of recreational cycling there are many riders who would probably benefit more from improving their taste than from improving their performance.* - RTMS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
