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ColinTheBald
So I have a seatpost bottle cage / front derailleur mount issue - the bottle bolt on my seatpost is only 1 or 2 mm above the derailleur band; although the thread is raised by 1mm or so I can't get my current bottle cages (king iris / bontrager xxx) to mount, because the band of the derailleur is too high and next to the bottle bolt.
It seems my options are therefore:
find a bottle cage that has only a really small mounting area so that the cage doesn't clash with the band for the derailleur.
find a very slim derailleur band so that it sits under the bottle cage - there are some carbon ones, but relatively few for a steel tube that takes a 27.2mm post (which I think means 28.6mm clamp?)
find a clamp on adaptor where the clamp around the post is lower by comparison to the derailleur mount (I have the M part one which is about as bad as you can get).
put shims / washers between the bottle cage + bottle mounts. Cheapest option, but might not look perfect + results in my bottle being further away from the frame. Might be less stable? Not sure.
Any thoughts? Am I missing anything? And this is for my nicest bike, so which route gets me the nicest set-up overall?