Just a personal opinion, but I don't think the Nitto cages are particularly sturdy. Very handsome, and obviously well made, but not very tough. I've had two of them on my Riv Road and took them off, after bending one somewhat askew when I shouldered my bike to carry it up some stairs. At the time, I was using a conventional large size plastic water bottle (not a Klean Kanteen). I think the larger size of the Kleen Kanteen (27 oz.) would be particularly ill suited for a Nitto cage, although the 18 oz. bottle would probably work sufficiently well.
At this point, I'm using a classic Specialites T..A. steel water bottle cage, which is sturdy as all git out, and another T.A. cage that was originally marketed for the "Randonneur" aluminum water bottles that T.A. made. These cages are squarish in configuration, and held the aluminum bottle that was either 750ml or 1000ml in size. The original water bottle had a "Grolsch" beer type cap. Just by luck, I purchase a couple of Laken Prisma water bottles from REI last year that are virtually the same form factor and have a sport cap, with a capacity of 1000 ml Jim Cloud Tucson, AZ On Apr 4, 6:24 pm, Eric Norris <campyonly...@me.com> wrote: > I had one of those fail, but not as quickly as yours. VO promptly sent me a > replacement, and I haven't had any trouble since then (about a year ago). > > During that time, on another bike, a genuine Nitto cage broke. I checked with > Rivendell, and the said it was out of warranty. > > Bike stuff breaks. Some manufacturers stand behind their stuff better than > others. > > --Eric N > Sent from the iPad 2 > > On Apr 4, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Benedikt <neutralbuoya...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I had two VO Retro Waterbottle cages > >http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/accessories/water-bottles-cage... > > and I a weld broke on one within 50 miles. Granted I may have > > squeezed it a little to much but it seemed pretty flimsy. > > > I just picked up two King Cage Iris > > cageshttp://www.kingcage.com/assets/img/Cage3.jpg > > and, while I haven't rode with them yet, they look far superior. Less > > welds. Stronger looking welds. Thicker tubing. They appear to hold > > the Kleen Canteen waterbottles pretty snug and standard plastic > > cycling waterbottles VERY well. > > > On Mar 14, 10:01 am, Forrest <ftme...@me.com> wrote: > >> For those of you who have used them (or I guess ridden in close > >> proximity to them), do the Laken aluminum watter bottles sold by RBW > >> tend to rattle in cages such as the King and the Nitto? Or pretty > >> solid/silent in those? Thanks. -- Forrest > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
