Bottle cage bolt plugs

Posted on Mon 13th, July 2009

• #1

Moonboy

I have bottle cage bolt hole's on my frame, i'm sure i've seen little gromets/plugs to fit in them when not in use.

Are they available if so where from?

thanks
• #2

Dutch_Cheese
1. Set screws from a hardware store, M5 thread.
2. Bike manufacturers (some) buy them (plastic plugs) from their suppliers thousands in a box. Hard or impossible to get just a few.
3. Very fancy: carbon fiber screws, e.g. Schmolke
4. Lightest and cheapest of all: nothing...
• #3

moog

I use nylon machine screws in mine I'm not sure where you'd get them from in small quantities though. Maybe ebay?
• #4

deleted

titanium bolts FTW.
• #5

gbj_tester

I use nylon machine screws in mine I'm not sure where you'd get them from in small quantities though. Maybe ebay?

http://www.allfix.co.uk/Products/00260008002800bc/M3S5SCM050X0012
~12p ea.

I've bought small qty. from them, can't remember what their minimum order is but with post and VAT my stuff came to under a tenner.
• #6

Moonboy

ok thanks

I have now tried the little plastic stopper out of a bic biro
• #7

Dylan

£2.60 x 12
free p&p

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Stainless-Steel-Button-Head-Allen-Bolts-M5-x-12-20Pk_W0QQitemZ330143048117QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_DIY_Material_Nails_Fixing_MJ?hash=item4cde0f21b5&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262&_trkparms=|293%3A1|294%3A30

screw in nice and flush with the frame.
• #8

slowstephen

tasty nuts !
• #9

moog

They are bolts...
• #10

slowstephen

yeah, but sooooo much prettier than anything else, and in colours ! and with a bit of lithium will always come out !
• #11

moog

Oh I thought you were referring to Dylans post, but I'm guessing now that you posted a picture which I can't see.
• #12

TheBrick(Tommy)
Three options
1. duck tape
2. Bathroom sealant
3. a slug
• #13

Sam

Or 4, possibly 5 matches.
• #14

slowstephen

http://www.tastynuts.com/site/frames/frameset_shoponline.htm
see and weep !
• #15

Bagheera
I popped into On Yer Bike @ London Bridge y'day - coincidentally the Trek sales rep's were in handing out free dog-nuts and tortilla chips.

We started talking SS (me and the rep, not me and the tortilla chips).

They were extolling the virtures of the Trek 2010 District Carbon, at £2,700.

They showed me a picture.

I said I really didn't like it as the bottle cage bolts annoyed me, destroying the clean lines of the frame.

They all laughed - a lot.

An awful lot.

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