Bar-mounted bottle cages disappeared from the pro ranks about 1964.
Cages with open/close clamps are primarily intended for use with aluminum bottles, which disappeared from the pro ranks in the late 1950s. Plastic bottles flex, allowing them to insert and fit securely into non-clamping cages.
Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio
> For a mid 60's bike would an appropriate cage be something like this REG
> unit:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.ca/
>
> or something more like a bent steel cage like a TA or REG that is similar
to
> what we use today? Any good mid 60's pics to demonstrate the point?
>
> When did handlebar mounted cages fall out of fashion?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Bilenkey
> Industrial Designer
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
> dbilenkey@sympatico.ca