Originally Posted by
alcjphil
You are searching for the holy grail. Any bottle cage that grips your bottle well will scratch it up when you remove and insert it. Bottles are inexpensive enough that if you want them to be pristine as as possible you should buy new ones when your old ones don't meet your standards
OP here. I probably am. Just to be clear, I don't expect the cage not to scratch the bottle at all. I'd just like the cage to not scratch the crap out of the bottle after only two or three rides.