Okay, I have been assured by my dealer/coworker/wishful BFF (her husband is adamant she needs more friends, but I ride too slow for her and she doesn't eat meat, drink beer or coffee so we have little do but BS at work) that I have not killed my bike. She also reminded me the B2 Bomber is largely carbon and my bike can take gentle hand tightening of bottle cages. Whew.

When I had standard plain old cages, you know the little bent metal ones that are like, $2 it was still a tight fit. I always rock a short bottle and a long bottle, and usually dump the contents of short into long because the long one on the downtube is easier to get to. So for illustration purposes, here are the bottles I have collected, with ya know, some other familiar objects for perspective.



From left to right we have a 24oz Polar Bottle (whose lid reappeared post picture, yay), 24oz Camelback Podium, 12oz of Blueberry deliciousness, 20oz Polar Bottle, LBS bottle of slightly larger than average size, 21oz Camelback Podium, local running store bottle of average size stolen from jerkface old roommate (kind of on accident), and 12oz of hoptastic goodness from Oskar Blues (first microbrewery to can, awh yeah).

I think if I just slit the rubber up front I could get it in and out, but would it hold? If my engineering degree holding roommate wasn't working in Alaska for two weeks I'm sure he could figure something out. There's just no wiggle room in the height adjustment. But, if we redrilled it. Ugh, do you see how much I love these cages? They're just sooooo perfect!

I guess I could rock the TACX on the downtube and something else in the back but no matchy-matchy? Anyone who has seen Candy knows I'm a sucker for aesthetics, and this is THE nicest bike I've ever owned and I want it to look hot, because the hotter it looks the more I want to ride him. He is El Tiburon (not named after the cheesy song by Proyecto Uno, but a that song is about a guy who is always snagging other guy's girls and in some weird way it seems fitting) so he must look fierce!