Originally Posted by
moe79
The under mount water bottle is silly in my opinion. Maybe for road touring or something, but if I just had to bolt something down there, I don't think it would be a water bottle. Even on the road the bottle would get plastered with dead worms and crap.
This thread has been gold.
Fuggo adams apple bikes interlaced with mystified comments about how to utilize a 3rd bottle cage.
1- it can be used to store stuff using an anything/anywhere salsa/blackburn cage.
2- it can hold water which can then be easily poured into an empty bottle occupying one of the other cages.
3- it can hold a tube, multitool, snack, etc.
Just use a velcro wrap to secure a full water bottle to the downtube as cages werent designed to hold weight with the front lip pointing down.
There is simply no reason to drink from bottles with worm crap caked on.