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@gbj_tester
Good point well made. Given the low resolution and poor focus at that point, it wasn't immediately obvious that this was so, but on a second look it does seem to be the case. There are still plenty of places for the Meccano to bend, twist or otherwise move, but the bend in the element you describe, along with the angle by which 'my' element has pulled away from the bottom of the bottle, suggests that your element has already self adjusted to its ideal position. As others, and you, have noted, the next failure looks like a twist in the beam joining the quill to the bottle cage thanks to the off axis load from the cable stop, and as this has a lot of leverage over the jubilee clips clamping the bottle cage to the bars, I'd expect them to rotate, along with some complex bending and twisting of the interconnecting elements of the bottle cage itself.
Of course, we all know that nodders frequently fail to make adequate, or sometimes any, use of the front brake, which makes discussion of it's viability to make a maximal stop moot.