Drinking on the move, 1940s/50s style?

[Spokesmann]

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thanks for that. Will be curious to see the selling price... and then the postage to Australia.

Bottles are about £35 each. Different dimension to the old ones, so they fit modern cages.

 

[Big Block]

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lost interest then.
I have a number of the 1940s and 50s cages, so that counts me out.
Unusual to market a replica metal bottle for a modern cage.

 

[Old Ned]

TBH, I don't think many people took 'rehydration' very seriously BITD - if they even knew what it was! I can remember riding 50 mile TT's without a bottle and only having one (and only drinking about half of it) in 100's. Perhaps if I had known how important it is I might have been World Champion.....................

Frame mount cages were only clamp-on for many years, braze-on bosses are (to me!!) relatively new.......................

 

[skylark]

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Old Ned, thanks for chipping in! Honestly I suppose that's what I was expecting given that provision for frame mounted bottles wasn't as standard.

Regarding "the look" for my current ride, I think I'll stick a bottle of pop in a saddle bag and stop for a swig when the occasion calls.

 

[bagpuss]

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A fellow cyclist passed these on to me recently .They have travelled 1,000s of miles on both his tandem and solo machines .John used them for both racing and touring with his good lady.
60 year old Coloral bidons by rebalrid, on Flickr

Coloral double bidons by rebalrid, on Flickr

 

[legrandefromage]

Very nice

Shows that those black & white pictures of olden days are fake, there WAS colour!