Retro looking handlebar bottles and cage

[Dodge2015]

I am wanting to add at least two bottles on my retro rebuild. I want to handlebar mount them. Any ideas where I can get something that at least looks reasonably 50/60s. The real thing does not seem to turn up very often so it looks as if I will have to buy something new. Any suggestions where I can source them. There is a good selection of suitable cages but handlebar mounts and retro bottles are proving difficult.

I also want one of those little clamps that hold the brake cables together above the stem.

 

[Excel]

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.....these people do retro style bottle cages along with handlebar clamps << http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/ ... cages.html >> they're not cheap but they look the part when fitted

Griff

 

[carltoncid]

You could also try Velo-heaven at :[email protected]

 

[COUPES]

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Ebay. Vintage water bottle holder and bottles. Made in France but look period with corks and string.

Simon

 

[Big Block]

to my eye, the Velo Orange cages sit too high when handlebar mounted.

and the link to the ones on ebay, these ones are more in keeping with the period Simplex wire ones I have

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bottle-cage-w ... Sw4HVWD~ml

 

[COUPES]

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These ones.

 

[Big Block]

I also want one of those little clamps that hold the brake cables together above the stem.

are you wanting a cable tidy or
one of the GB cable lubricators
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GB-Brake-cabl ... etdUjJAHqg

there is a reproduction bent wire cable tidy is on ebay from Germany, but I don't recall seeing any on photos of period bikes of the 1940s and 1950s.
A heavily pitted TA cable guide is on ebay currently
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GB-Brake-cabl ... etdUjJAHqg

but it is missing the grommets see here
http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/co ... &sods.html

 

[Big Block]

or if you are into modern branding these might work
http://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vinta ... lable.html

too in your face for me. Probably suitable on the new retro Bianchi made for the same event.

 

[hamster]

There was a lovely thread here about taking cheap aluminium water bottles (£3 from Asda sort of thing), then stripping the paint and adding cork stoppers. I cannot find it, but way cheaper than originals.

 

[Robbied196]

There was a lovely thread here about taking cheap aluminium water bottles (£3 from Asda sort of thing), then stripping the paint and adding cork stoppers. I cannot find it, but way cheaper than originals.

That might have been me

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