Bottle cage / bidon mounts on a track bike

This is the one they recommend

Yeah I just noticed that. I think I'm being so excruciatingly stupid that I will have to go off into a corner and have a word with myself. How in the name of frick do they actually attach?

Magnets?

^^Scoble, I've seen you post some Heath Robinson stuff in my time, but isn't that just one speed bump away from a bottle in the bollocks?

(besides I have quill stems on by bikes so I'm screwed even if that does work).

I had it on my bike, it work pretty well, not sure how plausible it is to have a bottle in the bollocks after going through a speedbump.

I had it on my bike, it work pretty well, not sure how plausible it is to have a bottle in the bollocks after going through a speedbump.

To begin with I couldn't make it out and thought it was facing groinwards. At the least it looks distracting.

Ah, here's a better image to illustrate how it look;

fucked up shit

Ed that is completely beyond the pale.

What's there to fucked up? it work, it have easy access, it doesn't required any adaptor apart from the stem cap.

To be fair Ed, you are right.
But, like a lot of the functional stuff, it just is not aesthetically pleasing.
carry on

brap^

I've sussed it by the way. I think i was expecting more from it as a piece of kit. It is indeed just a sort of jubilee clip with a little nobble to fit into the bolt holes in the cage. You need a cage whose attaching bracket extends out at the top and bottom so as to wrap one of the clips at the top and one at the bottom.

I still can't see why there aren't more complete cages with straps on the market (a la the French one I posted above).

http://http://www.nordicgroup.us/cageboss/

Seems comprehensive although many dead links...

These get a good review on the link walm provided.

That's funny, I tried something that looked identical to those a few years ago and they were atrocious. Unusable.

Actually I installed those yesterday having broken 2 of the KF seatpost adaptors.
No idea if they will actually work but if they don't I will go for Ed's top cap solution for comedy value.
TFG have them for £7 online.
http://www.tokyofixedgear.com/products/152-New-Arrivals/3930-King-Cage---Top-Cap-Cage-Mount/

I stand by what I posted earlier in the thread...the decathlon ones are cheap and work. They might not look fantastic but they are some way better than anything scoble will suggest.

They also have the advantage of being easily dis-mountable should you want to take them off. I frequently switch between none, one, and two with minimal faff. (I would recommend not using the decathlon bottle cages though. The one I have is rubbish.)

These get a good review on the link walm provided.

I can testify that they are utterly awful! The design is fundamentally flawed in that the 'toothed' bit which ratchets / tightens up is not enclosed within the body of the clip so any outward pressure at all and it just jumps out. Stupid!

I can testify that they are utterly awful! The design is fundamentally flawed in that the 'toothed' bit which ratchets / tightens up is not enclosed within the body of the clip so any outward pressure at all and it just jumps out. Stupid!

OK, I admit that I found these a pain to install but I think there was a fundamental mis-understanding on my part. In the end it has worked fine.

You need to have clipped the tooth thing in place so it is just resting there.
Now because the damn things are straight and made of plastic and don't have a retainer as you point out - IT WILL JUMP OUT.

To counter this, you need to BEND the plastic at the point where it enters the teeth so it stays in place (still just loosely at this stage).

Do this with BOTH clips.

THEN ATTACH THE CAGE.

This is very important.
THE CAGE ACTS AS THE RETENTION TO THE CLIP - PREVENTING THE TOOTHED BIT FROM JUMPING OUT.
(I have no idea why I am shouting, I am really not angry or anything - sorry.)

Once the cage is firmly in place on both clips - THEN you can tighten the retaining straps, because now they can't pop out since the cage is in the way.

Simples.
Or in fact, not simples at all. Damn counterintuitive to be honest.

Since then with regard to the actual, staying on the bike, holding a drink thing - they have been great.
Aesthetically I think they suck, but I have a purple and gold fixeh with an AYHSMB decal so probably have other things to worry about.

After searching here and google for ages does anyone have an idea where to get a seat mounted bottle holder or any reviews of decent ones, only one I saw looked like it would brake just fitting it.

I have this one and it is acceptable, and it hasn't broken in the last few months...

Now that looks more like it :) does it come with cages or you have to supply your own?

Bottle cage, saddle and seatpost not included

why you no read?

https://www.lfgss.com/thread1399.html

I'm thinking of getting bottle mounts for my bike, or a camelbak.

Does one have any reasons to choose one above another.

A small note, my bike doesn't have bottle bosses, so I'd need to find some method of getting the bottles on the bike then.

zip tie.