Drinking on the move, 1940s/50s style?

Spokesmann · Jul 20, 2018

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Big Block":3rj79rk9 said:
thanks for that. Will be curious to see the selling price... and then the postage to Australia.

Bottles are about £35 each. Different dimension to the old ones, so they fit modern cages.

Big Block · Jul 20, 2018

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lost interest then.
I have a number of the 1940s and 50s cages, so that counts me out.
Unusual to market a replica metal bottle for a modern cage.

Old Ned · Jul 24, 2018

TBH, I don't think many people took 'rehydration' very seriously BITD - if they even knew what it was! I can remember riding 50 mile TT's without a bottle and only having one (and only drinking about half of it) in 100's. Perhaps if I had known how important it is I might have been World Champion.....................

Frame mount cages were only clamp-on for many years, braze-on bosses are (to me!!) relatively new.......................

skylark · Jul 28, 2018

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Old Ned, thanks for chipping in! Honestly I suppose that's what I was expecting given that provision for frame mounted bottles wasn't as standard.

Regarding "the look" for my current ride, I think I'll stick a bottle of pop in a saddle bag and stop for a swig when the occasion calls.

bagpuss · Jul 29, 2018

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A fellow cyclist passed these on to me recently .They have travelled 1,000s of miles on both his tandem and solo machines .John used them for both racing and touring with his good lady.

60 year old Coloral bidons by rebalrid, on Flickr

Coloral double bidons by rebalrid, on Flickr

legrandefromage · Jul 29, 2018

Very nice

Shows that those black & white pictures of olden days are fake, there WAS colour!

Drinking on the move, 1940s/50s style?

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