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Thrashing around Yorkshire and Essex watching the TDF at the weekend my bottle cage sheered off from the bolts.
This is the 3rd time this has happened with a metal cage on my steel bike in 3-4 years. Is this happening to anyone else, WTF?
I know part of the answer is UK road surfaces are shit. I guess my awesome power/above average girth/lightening speed/other is causing the frame to flex too much and putting too much strain the cage? Am I missing something, is there some good quality metal cage I should be investing in? Is a plastic or crabon one likely to fare any better?
On the same trip and I've also shaken lose a bolt from my crabon Chorus, the one that screws into the crank arm.
Campag catalogue tells me the bolt is an FC-RE302 but I can't seem to find the bolt in the UK. No dice at Sigma, I've emailed Sidcup cycles and am going to try Condor tomorrow. Any other suggestions?