Galen:
On 3/16/06, galen pewtherer <dolface@gmail.com> wrote:
> the bike had one of the old TA cages held on with clamps, but that's
> gone the way of the dodo, and something in me rebels against clamping
> something to the downtube (irrational i know, as the shifters and
> cable guide are both clamped on).
Period-correct is ... the clamp-on downtube TA cage! ;) Looks good and
classic, especially when there's clamp-on shifters and cable guides
already.
> i'm hoping to find a nice-looking way to get a bottle up on the bars,
> does anyone have any suggestions?
Equally classic, though perhaps a little more French than Italian, is another TA cage, but the bar-mount kind, as in current eBay auction # 7225890677 :
I've got the downtube one on a '69 Raleigh Super Course (love it) and the bar one on a '72 Motobecane Super Mirage (love it). Both bikes are (you guessed it) Super, not just because of their classy and functional bottle cages, but they help.
If you're going for more modern, there are Minoura bar mount devices to hold the commodity bottle cage (or 2) of your choice.
Don Rogers
Rumford, RI USA