What bottle cages are on your retro rig?

[kerryn]

For some strange reason I was thinking about bottle cages today.

I have a couple of Blackburn Metal Matrix cages on by Boulder that must be around 12 years old (when did Blackburn beginning making the MM cages?). These cages still look like new after all these years....

Call be biased but I think these are the greatest cages ever made. They:
1) hold the bottle well
2) are light weight
3) do not leave black gunge over bottles
4) do not suffer color wear like anodized or painted cages, and
5) are reasonably priced unlike Titanium cages.

So what cage(s) do you have on your rig, why do you like it and how long has it been going?

 

[Crell]

I'm not a fan of cages to be honest. It spoils the lines of a classic frame IMO.
I have some Ringle cages, a couple of Flouro Elite ones and that's about it I think.

 

[GoldenEraMTB]

not fond of H2O's but I've owned and used a couple.

I really like blackburn and the old american classic cages

 

[tintin40]

have carbon only 24 grams

 

[elite504]

H20,
and early thermoplatic profile cages are pretty cool. And early specialised mountain cages, both welded ally and thermo..

 

[The Ken]

plastic Specialized cage, light holds a bottle - not too ugly.

 

[dyna-ti]

None
Hate them
They spoil the lines

 

[scant]

king titanium applies to all but no.5.

 

[dbmtb]

For me a bike without a bottle cage just shows it never gets used for more than an hour at a time. So none on my "to the shops bike"

Otherwise, Elite Ciussi.

Must have 20 of them on my various bikes...

Except the Gios where it'd just be plain wrong so I have a period steel thing instead. And the De Rosa where De Rosa bottles are Pateo size....

 

[Kona Paul]

King ti normally when I decide to use a cage (races), but also have a Joe Murray combo cage for the old Explosif.