Hey cool it's the Fabric Cageless Water Bottle. It comes with mounts that you can bolt on directly to your bicycle frame. The water bottle has slots at the back that clings onto the mounts. While not really the world's first, this is an ingenious idea to save weight.
The absence of cages will create clean lines around your frame. If you are into neat looking bikes, then this might be what you need. Most cages out there looks aggressive and fast sometimes makes your bike look cluttered especially when the are no bottles mounted.
It does need a bit of practice to perfect mounting it back to the frame. Honestly, the first day I rode with this, I had to stop every time I had to return the bottle. You'll almost lose faith in this product. Some pro-cageless reviews stated that I will not be hard to re-mount it as you don't rotate the bottle in your hands while you take a squeeze at it. I thought this makes sense but in real world practice, it is really hard.
You'd have to give it a strong pull to get the bottle out of the mounts. The same amount of force is needed to push it back into place. But you have to get the slots aligned first, a tedious job for first timers.
The entire package came with 2 sets of bolts and mounts. In this product, it came with 2 black and 2 white mounts.
Mounted on a white colored frame, it looked like this. Clean!
I'm still sitting on the fence with this idea. The clean aesthetic looks weighs just the same as the practicality and user-friendliness. Which do I choose?
I might just buy Elite cages next time.
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