Silca Ti cage - $70, really?!?

[Bonesbrigade]

I do love my niche bike products, but I'm seriously trying to come up with any reason why I'd buy this over a SS King Iris cage for less than 20$. I guess if you are gram counting, then the 20g savings could sway somebody, but damn, that's a stretch.

[BikeNY]

Agree on the King SS cages, I have them on all of my bikes except one, which has King Ti cages. It's a bit harder to get bottles in and out of the Ti cages as the oversize tubing is stiffer. I prefer the SS ones, and have never dropped a bottle, even while mountain biking very rough terrain.

[colker]

I want to buy an ice cream.. but i need it to be a 100 dollar ice cream cone. I am not cheap and want the absolute best. Any tips? Thanks.

[93KgBike]

Originally Posted by colker

I want to buy an ice cream.. but i need it to be a 100 dollar ice cream cone. I am not cheap and want the absolute best. Any tips? Thanks.

Many of us are old enough to remember "premium water" at $20 per liter in the 80's. Or Benneton sweaters? Or the Swatch?

There was a $50 cup-o-coffee in LA back in the early oughts.

[avalonracing]

Originally Posted by colker

I want to buy an ice cream.. but i need it to be a 100 dollar ice cream cone. I am not cheap and want the absolute best. Any tips? Thanks.

I scoff at your $100 cone as my cone is superior at $125.

[johnniecakes]

Originally Posted by 93KgBike

Many of us are old enough to remember "premium water" at $20 per liter in the 80's. Or Benneton sweaters? Or the Swatch?

There was a $50 cup-o-coffee in LA back in the early oughts.

Others remember $0.29 gallon of gas, $0.19 hamburgers, $1.75 large pizza and $172.00 for a custom Bill Boston made from Reynolds 531

[godfrey1112000]

⛽️ 15.9 cent a gallon 1970 White Castle belly bombers 12 cents

[notsew]

[Spaghetti Legs]

The last new bottle cages I bought were some white ones and some gold (colored) ones, $0.99 shipped from China. They’re pretty nice.

Somebody wants to spend $70 on a bottle cage and it makes him/her happy then fine by me.

[Mikej]

King Ti cages on all my bikes. In one summer my son lost 13 bottles mountain bike racing. And it’s not just the 10$ bottle cost, but the loss of important hydration and energy. Bit the bullet and tossed the Bontrager carbons for ti kings on his bike. Zero bottles lost since.

[Hellgate]

Originally Posted by 93KgBike

Let the kids have their fun complaining. It's a $70 water bottle cage.

If that's not funny enough for you, the Silca homepage has a close-up picture of the cage with the text, "HANDMADE BY LASERS" printed over it in all caps 30pt font.

Handmade by lasers... lol. C'mon that's worthy of Monty Python.

I only buy cages made by sharks with fricken lasers.19d5a5op3yicijpg.jpeg

[Dino Suegiù]

$70/each is very expensive, but does not seem so crazy, when compared with others of the same quality. The market seems to be at $65/each +, for titanium or good carbon-fiber bottle cages.

These Silca look beautiful, with the continuous center bar, nicer even than King (but that detail is invisible in real use, so is it worth $10 extra?).

I think that anything over the $60/pair for King or Arundel stainless or Elite, etc. (these titanium are $120/pair for King, $140 for Silca) is a lot of money, but on the other hand many people buy Arundel Mandible and other carbon-fiber cages which also cost $130 or more/pair, and nobody seems to complain about those very much.

Are King/Moots made in the same place? They look identical.

[simonov]

Originally Posted by Dino Suegiù

$70/each does not seem so crazy, when compared with others of the same quality.

The Silca look beautiful, with the continuous center bar, nicer even than King (but that detail is invisible in real use, so is it worth $10 extra?).

I think that over $60/pair for King or Arundel stainless or Elite, etc. (these titanium are $120/pair for King, $140 for Silca) is a lot of money, but on the other hand many people buy Arundel and other carbon-fiber cages which also cost $130 or more/pair, and nobody seems to complain about those much.

Are King/Moots made in the same place? They look identical.

The Moots cages are King cages blasted to match the Moots finish.

The Arundel Mandible is the best cage around, hands down. Even at a ridiculous price.

[Dino Suegiù]

Originally Posted by simonov

The Moots cages are King cages blasted to match the Moots finish.

The Arundel Mandible is the best cage around, hands down. Even at a ridiculous price.

I see, thank you. And now they make black too?

That is what I mean: Mandible are great, but they too are $130 for two pieces.

[colker]

Originally Posted by Mikej

King Ti cages on all my bikes. In one summer my son lost 13 bottles mountain bike racing. And it’s not just the 10$ bottle cost, but the loss of important hydration and energy. Bit the bullet and tossed the Bontrager carbons for ti kings on his bike. Zero bottles lost since.

He needs a camelback.