Today was supposed to be such an awesome day. I was gonna go to work early, get my joyous box of bike goodies, go home and ride. And, mind you all that happened but I only got to work early because sleeping was not in the cards and I just gave up.

Anyway, got home with my pretty Tacx Tao cages and fought tooth and nail to get the stupid things off the card. Then I struggled like mad to put them on only to finally realize that duh, even though it looks weird the long end of my Pedro's hex wrenches work. Duh! Wow, and I built an entire bike, and it hasn't collapsed.... Miracle upon miracles.

Okay, so problem number one. When I put the first one on I got it feeling erm, semi-snug and gave another maybe half turn because last time I went just to that point they got loose after just a few rides. Anyway, there was a small creak and I'm freaking because it's a carbon frame. The bosses are metal, and I'm 80% sure it was the cage leveling because the had a bit of a bend to them. I did the other three bolts about the same tightness with no issue. Ack, someone calm me down.

The second problem is there is no way on this green earth I can get the seat tube bottle in and out while riding. My frame is really compact for a 52cm and the absurdly fat tubing on this bike doesn't help. I really don't want to send them back, there are no side entry cages that get me all twittery. So I'm tempted to hack the little rubber center bit so I can pull it forward and out. Just afraid it won't hold at all. Any chance someone has tried this? I can't find anything on the intertubes.

Argh, they just look so perfect. Why must I be so stinking short?