Adding bottle cage mounts.

Tonyandthewhale

Right, I've got an old steel hardtail mountain bike frame that I want to turn into a touring bike for doing stupid stuff on, it's a lovely fit, got a nice long wheelbase, geometry's perfect, braze-ons galore for racks and mudguards and the like. The thing is there's only one set of mounts for a bottle cage and I need at least two or three.

Is it possible to retrofit these? Or even get some sort of clamp on yokes that aren't awful?

ednwireland

http://www.bikedock.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-bd.tpl&product_id=1002&category_id=26&vmcchk=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1




or

http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/accessories/water-bottles-cages/bottle-cage-clamp.html

07Lapierre

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

Right, I've got an old steel hardtail mountain bike frame that I want to turn into a touring bike for doing stupid stuff on, it's a lovely fit, got a nice long wheelbase, geometry's perfect, braze-ons galore for racks and mudguards and the like. The thing is there's only one set of mounts for a bottle cage and I need at least two or three.

Is it possible to retrofit these? Or even get some sort of clamp on yokes that aren't awful?

you could drill and tap new holes for mounting bottle cages, though I wouldn't recommend it.
You could use these. Wouldn't look great though.

edwnireland's links good too

Lumen

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/elite-vip-bottle-cage-clamps-22-50-mm-diameter-prod13892/

Tonyandthewhale

Thanks, I think I'll go with ednwireland's first one, looks like the neatest. Anyone actually use any of the clamp yokes linked though? Do they actually work? As in do they stay put and not wobble or slide?

chakattack

I've used the elite ones lumen linked to. Once you take the time to fit them right they are flawless and you'll forget they are there. Depending on your frame colour they're not very noticeable.