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Community => Thorn General => Topic started by: E-wan on March 09, 2012, 11:13:54 AM

Title: What have you found that will fit in a profile bottle cage?
Post by: E-wan on March 09, 2012, 11:13:54 AM

I just wondered what useful things people have managed to fit into the profile bottle cages that come on thorn bikes.

I can get a 1L or 0.5L alluminum thernous into mine

Title: Re: What have you found that will fit in a profile bottle cage?
Post by: Blacksail on March 09, 2012, 05:04:23 PM

Sometimes use mine as a wardrobe, hats, gloves, jackets, over-trousers.

Title: Re: What have you found that will fit in a profile bottle cage?
Post by: Danneaux on March 09, 2012, 06:15:00 PM

While I don't have Profile cages on my Sherpa (it uses CatEye nylon cages), I have had one in the past and found the dimensions the same, so here's a list of what's gone into mine on occasion:

- wadded-up rain jacket
- wadded-up woolen jersey
- Shoe covers when it stopped raining
- .75l water bottle
- 1.0l Zefal Magnum water bottle
- SOMA tool bottle (plastic bottle with screw-on lid to hold tools)
- Cage Rocket cell-phone holder
- Underseat tool bag (the small one that otherwise clipped to the saddle rails)
- Sack/pasteboard container containing Chinese take-out meal
- Lidded styro cup of hot coffee or hot tea

Best,

Dan.

Title: Re: What have you found that will fit in a profile bottle cage?
Post by: energyman on March 09, 2012, 09:13:49 PM

A rather heavy 6 volt Lead Acid Battery that only powered a CATEYE HALOGEN lamp for 45 minutes at best.  So one had to peddle like mad back from keep fit classers in the winter before it went flat.

Title: Re: What have you found that will fit in a profile bottle cage?
Post by: Danneaux on March 09, 2012, 09:33:13 PM

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...So one had to peddle like mad back from keep fit classers in the winter before it went flat...

Kinda met the goal without the class, d'innit!  :-\

Your luck with the CatEye Halogen battery life is about the same as mine.  :(

Best,

Dan.