Fidlock Twist Bottle and Bike Base 600ml (TBL)

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Some manufacturers aim to fill a specific brief for bottles that fall outside of this range, offering specific over-sized cages.As far as mountain biking is concerned, you’re going to want to use bottle cages that your water bottles don’t fly out of the minute you hit the rough stuff. Twin slot and hole mounts allow for extra adjustability when it comes to making multiple bottle cages work together. There’s a choice of two different cosmetic 3K carbon finishes and multiple colour swatch options on the glossy UD carbon versions. Freestyle: If you’ve got no eyelets on the bike for bottle cages (highly unlikely) or if the eyelets aren’t exactly where you’d like them to be, you can always go for a bottle cage that attaches to your bike using something similar to voile straps. Do bottle cages fit all the bikes?

The standard bolt spacing is around 64mm apart. Brands typically use elongated eyelets for frame height adaptability and compatibility, while some will use a series of smaller eyelets to achieve the same effect. and 450ml bottles feature an updated ergonomic design, easy-squeeze thanks to a softer material and a new high flow bottle cap with a self-sealing and leak-proof valve and optional dirt cover. The Restrap Mag Bottle is the neatest alternative to using a cage you can buy. It’s not dissimilar to the Vincero Design magnetic system, but is cheaper, more widely available, and crucially comes in a slightly larger 600ml size. Top loading: Looking purely for proper grip and not too fussed about the accessinfo your bottle on the go that much? This one’s for you! Pretty from the off, as the bottle isn’t being repeatedly inserted into a gritty cage, it’ll stay looking new almost indefinitely.

So, would I recommend the Restrap Mag Bottle? Other than from a purely subjective aesthetic standpoint cageless water bottles can appear a solution to a problem that had seemed pretty well solved. Between these is a small spigot to help locate the bottle. On the underside of the bottle is a corresponding set of clasps, each also housing a magnet. Still it’s much more secure than many of the lightweight carbon cages that some weight-weenie brands produce. The twist and pull motion also prevents potentially painful encounters with the top tube and, for me at least, felt less exaggerated than Lezyne's likeable side-entry Flow. With an Arundel Mandible Carbon bottle cage, you might have to use 40% more force to get that bottle out, but you can rest assured as there’s no seismic force flinging your bottle out of the cage. You can still get it out when you need to though, with a firm but consistent release straight up or at a slightly sideways angle, and the open mouth makes it easy to relocate your bottle if you’ve got tight frame clearances to work with, you can always go for the option of a side-release cage.