If you look closely, you'll note just such a bottle cage on my touring Ellis-Briggs:
http://www.wooljersey.com/
Its one of the two boss-mounted Blackburn cages, vintage 1982, like the frame itself.
...Derek Davis, Phoenix
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reid Fisher [mailto:reidfisher@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 4:42 PM
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Re: Water bottle holder locations
>
> Rich Pinder asks about first use of a seatpost mount -- don't know. But
> how
> about another approach I've surprisingly only seen on one bike (an older
> bike used by a serious tourer in the '60's): the previous owner had it
> rigged with an extra cage mounted below and in front of the down tube,
> since
> the main triangle was occupied by a pump, DT shifters, at least one other
> water bottle. It worked just fine as a reserve location in that little
> triangle of space, if you didn't mind wiping road grime off when you
> switch
> bottles. Old hat?
>
> Reid Fisher
> working off the holiday chocolate in San Martin, California
>
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