Talk:Bottle cage
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[edit] Questionable claim
"Riders had a cage there [on the handlebars] rather than have two on the frame, where the centre of gravity is lower, because at the time the Tour's rules insisted that riders carry a pump. The pump took up the length of one frame tube and made a second bottle cage on the frame impossible."
- All of my road bike frames have had two bottle cages (one on the seat tube and one on the downtube), and they always carry a frame-mounted pump (under the top tube). I'm sceptical that Tour riders used a handlebar-mounted bottle cage because there wasn't room on their frames due to frame pumps. Anyone have a source either way? -AndrewDressel (talk) 15:57, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
- I don't have a source to hand, but I would point out that seat tube mounted frame pumps are comparatively recent innovation. Old school frame pumps were mounted to braze-ons on the down tube. -Dhodges (talk) 19:29, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
- Here are some interesting links:
- An image of a 1937 Allegro Competition with handlebar mounted water bottles (cans?) and pump mounted on the seat tube, though not necessarily original.
- An image of a 1950 Helyett Speciale with one handlebar mounted water bottle and a pump mounted behind the seat tube with what appear to be braze-on pegs.
- An image of a 1954 Stella Louison Bobet TdF with a bottle cage clamped onto the downtube.
- An image of a mid 1950s bike with bottles mounted on the handlebars, downtube, and what appears to be a pump mounted to the bottom of the downtube:
- It appears to me that there is no clear cut time or reason for the switch from handlebar to frame mounted bottle cages. -AndrewDressel (talk) 20:36, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
- Here are some interesting links:
- I don't have a source to hand, but I would point out that seat tube mounted frame pumps are comparatively recent innovation. Old school frame pumps were mounted to braze-ons on the down tube. -Dhodges (talk) 19:29, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
