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you used to be able to get bottle cage plastic straps to fit on the frame in Halfords for bottle cages, maybe they still do them?
Tesco big Stores do have clamp on bottle cages for the bars nowadays, although they don't supply a bit of inner tube to keep them rock steady on the bars, I guess for Sunday riders in the Park etc they're fine. Very retro, but you'd need the straws to go with them too.
Bottles behind the saddle are literaly a pain in the rear- you can't get at them on a ride, and if you can you can't put the thing back again.
Yes to aero on downtube and seat tube if you have cages, not sure if you don't though, even wearing a cap over your hair improves the aero mark downwards (down towards zero, but not zero..)
BTW body bulk is an awful lot to do with non-aero and worrying about a bottle cage somewhere is in the grand scale infinitesmal, bend you back and you'll be more aero, you may not be able to breath though.... but you'll be aero.
Tesco's do some of their own versions of Camelback's for all of £10 and they're good too, for a club run or training they're fine, for racing they're naf