Doland: I think your set up looks fine and pretty clever.
On your picture site you wrote: "I'd prefer not to use a clamp on cage since I want to keep the original paint."
For the past 5 or so years I've had two cages mounted on my '72 International (champagne) using the Zefal plastic clamp band, bought at a LBS. I found this arrangement to be quite good. I just removed them last week with no paint damage evident. (Aside: I haven't put a bottle in those cages in a year now: using a CamelBak, and I won't be going back to bottles.)
Doug Morrell Hot, parched, St Louis MO, looking for some "Dennis" rain -----Original Message-----
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:31:29 -0500 From: "Cheung, Doland" <cheungd@bv.com> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR] Where NOT to mount bottle cage on Raleigh International...
Is a water bottlecage behind the seat really that bad? You be the judge!
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/
I think it looks stupid, but it wasn't half bad from a functional standpoint when I tried it out in the driveway. I'd use handlebar bottle mounts, but I don't want to cover up my lovely GB "Map of England" Randonneur bars.
Doland