Reviewing a water bottle seems silly. It holds water, and when the valve is open, and the bottle squeezed, water comes out. Fabric's bottle does all that, but how it attaches to your bike is completely unique.
- Water bottle designed for jersey pockets
- Camelbak Podium bottle review
- Specialized Purist bottle review
First a bit of back story. I spent the better part of six months agonizing over frame angles and lengths, tubing bends, paint colors (lack there of), seatstay designs, dropouts and more with the guy who builds Meriwether custom steel frames. Another month was spent debating parts, forks and drivetrains. When it was finally put together, it was gorgeous.
ADVERTISEMENT
People who have less than zero interest in bikes were like "wow, that's a cool bike." So when I bolted on a water bottle cage to the down tube, having this incongruous blob in the middle of this rolling work of art bummed me out. In my opinion it ruined the carefully curated lines of the bike. So when I saw this crazy new bottle with minuscule mounts from UK company Fabric, I had to have one.
The best 'cage' ever
Two tiny studs mount on to your frame's water bottle bosses to secure the water bottle. And that's it. Three minuscule grams (not that I'm counting). More importantly for me, no unsightly, weirdly bent metal cage, or worse yet a random mishmash of carbon cluttering up my custom frame's design that was so obsessed over.
Bottle let down
More options coming
Fabric Water Bottle and studs pricing
You can read more at BikeRadar.com
via BikeRadar All the latest from BikeRadar.com http://ift.tt/2aQqdzH
No comments:
Post a Comment