I've happily used these for +2 seasons. I fully intend to keep using them, but am intrigued by Werking's new Alptitude carbon cage.froze wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 12:49 amAt least the reviews so far seem to be highly favorable, durability issues hasn't been formulated yet since they haven't been around long enough. But $70 for one cage with about $2 in carbon fiber seems a bit high to me. But I understand this is cycling and manufactures can charge a lot for stuff that's cheaply made. I think if I were to consider these cages I would go with the MTB HD version on my road bike just to make sure it would hold my bottles, and besides it's only 8 grams.
My question is will the bolts that mount the cages to the bike crush the carbon fiber when tightened down?
In the spirit full transparency, I've had a couple of issues (and another that was totally my fault) but Simon is a class-act and made it more than right. A first-gen cage broke on its own while JRA. Another first-gen broke one when I squeezed it together to see how much forgiveness there is - not that much! My fault. Two later-gen cages had the sleeve material come apart that affected aesthetics and not function.
With respect to the included lightweight bolts, the heads will eventually strip if you monkey with them over and over. They're easily replaceable with the same, aluminium, steel, etc.