​​​​​​​Tune Wasserträger 2.0 Bottle Cages
Cyclist|May 2017

Who looks at the price when precious grams are at stake?

Sam Challis
​​​​​​​Tune Wasserträger 2.0 Bottle Cages

German brand Tune specialises in making the lightest bike components possible, but in the case of its Wasserträger 2.0 cage it actually added some extra weight.

‘Initially we had a cage that was even lighter, around four grams,’ says Harry Czech, international sales manager at the Black Forest company. ‘It basically looked like a figure of eight, just two bands of carbon and aramid polymer crossed over.

‘Everycage was more or less unique because each was hand-laminated, but the bolt hole drillings were really bad and, to be honest, it was just so ugly,’ he adds. ‘Also if you spilt isotonic drink on it when you put your bid on back in, curiously it somehow reacted with the cage and glued the bottle in it.’

This story is from the May 2017 edition of Cyclist.

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