The ultimate weight weenie device was the 44gm (1.545 oz.) Hi-E water bottle cage.
http://www.velo-pages.com/
I used them because the single hose clamp was less likely to damage the paint (with some tape under it) ???
Chas. Colerich Oakland, CA USA
Eric Keller wrote:
> When I first started building frames in the mid '70s, water bottle
> braze ons were not very common. Then later in the '70s it became more
> common to have one water bottle cage on the down tube. I usually had
> a second water bottle cage, either on the handlebars or clamped to the
> seat post, sometimes both. The thing I don't remember is why the
> frames I built in the early 80s only have one set of water bottle cage
> braze ons. The only thing I can say is for most of the races I rode
> in back then, one water bottle was more than enough and I was still a
> weight weenie. Water bottle cages always came with clamps.
>
> I always had my pump under my top tube anyway, even without a peg a
> silca of the correct size will stay there.
> Eric Keller
> Boalsburg, PA