Id be more concerned about your chainring clearance….
Other_Animal on
More concerned with the clearance on your chain ring
yogorilla37 on
If that goes wrong it’s going to jam your front wheel. Don’t do it
smellyelephantballs on
You’re fine, it’s worth using a voile strap or similar to make sure it doesn’t vibrate out and contact the wheel if you weren’t already planning on that. Unless it’s a suspension fork in which case it won’t work.
Joatboy on
I’d use a different bottle, one with an indent for the cage. Clearance issue is fine as long as you’re not trying to insert/remove the bottle while at speed.
Limp_Bookkeeper_5992 on
It’s probably fine, but you definitely need to put a strap around that bottle if you want it to stay there and not bounce around.
Acrobatic_Dinner6129 on
My di2 cable is way closer your fine
DeputyReddit on
I did a couple hundred with my Nalgene like this. You’re fine.
it’s not the clearance in this case, it’s how likely that bottle is to move. While offroad I usually use a Voile strap on a heavy downtube bottle just in case, but in this case it’s mandatory: that thing cannot come out unexpectedly. Strap it down tight and you should be fine.
MariusBreuer on
If there’s contact, you’ll see the lid being ground down, so that would be a clear indicator.
Make absolutely sure that the bottle doesn’t pull out upwards during the ride, if the tyre catches it and jams into it upwards, you’ll immediately lock your front wheel. Next stop: ER and dentists office.
If there’s any other way, ie swapping bottles with the other cages, going with something like fidlock, a tool bag or whatever, then definitely do those things rather than this
Chairmanmaozedon on
Honestly my big worry with that siting would be you ride through animal faeces of some kind and give your drinks bottle a liberal coat of shit.
drphrednuke on
Is that a suspension fork?
jim914 on
My concern would be reaching it to get a drink first and second is how much road debris is going to be on the drinking spout! It’s not that close but not a good position.
jim914 on
My concern would be reaching it to get a drink first and second is how much road debris is going to be on the drinking spout! It’s not that close but not a good position.
bruburubhb on
bottle too high
DazzlingDesmond on
Swap that bottle for something slimmer honestly. Half an inch doesn’t sound like much but once you fill it up the plastic can flex outward a bit, and on knobby tires like those the tread will grab anything that gets close. I’d also second the chainring concern from the other folks, that gap looks way more sketchy than the tire clearance to me.
If you’re set on keeping it in that cage, at least strap it down with a voile or toe strap so it can’t vibrate out and jam into the spokes mid ride. A standard Nalgene is just too wide for most mountain bike frames in my experience, I had the same issue on my old hardtail and ended up going with a smaller bottle. Sucks because nalgenes are indestructible but the tradeoff is they barely fit anywhere on a bike.
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Rigid or suspension fork?
my fender has less clearance.
Id be more concerned about your chainring clearance….
More concerned with the clearance on your chain ring
If that goes wrong it’s going to jam your front wheel. Don’t do it
You’re fine, it’s worth using a voile strap or similar to make sure it doesn’t vibrate out and contact the wheel if you weren’t already planning on that. Unless it’s a suspension fork in which case it won’t work.
I’d use a different bottle, one with an indent for the cage. Clearance issue is fine as long as you’re not trying to insert/remove the bottle while at speed.
It’s probably fine, but you definitely need to put a strap around that bottle if you want it to stay there and not bounce around.
My di2 cable is way closer your fine
I did a couple hundred with my Nalgene like this. You’re fine.
https://preview.redd.it/gtt3qh5zcp9h1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=138897ac8e6d5060b353c297a7961352b91dd21a
it’s not the clearance in this case, it’s how likely that bottle is to move. While offroad I usually use a Voile strap on a heavy downtube bottle just in case, but in this case it’s mandatory: that thing cannot come out unexpectedly. Strap it down tight and you should be fine.
If there’s contact, you’ll see the lid being ground down, so that would be a clear indicator.
Make absolutely sure that the bottle doesn’t pull out upwards during the ride, if the tyre catches it and jams into it upwards, you’ll immediately lock your front wheel. Next stop: ER and dentists office.
If there’s any other way, ie swapping bottles with the other cages, going with something like fidlock, a tool bag or whatever, then definitely do those things rather than this
Honestly my big worry with that siting would be you ride through animal faeces of some kind and give your drinks bottle a liberal coat of shit.
Is that a suspension fork?
My concern would be reaching it to get a drink first and second is how much road debris is going to be on the drinking spout! It’s not that close but not a good position.
My concern would be reaching it to get a drink first and second is how much road debris is going to be on the drinking spout! It’s not that close but not a good position.
bottle too high
Swap that bottle for something slimmer honestly. Half an inch doesn’t sound like much but once you fill it up the plastic can flex outward a bit, and on knobby tires like those the tread will grab anything that gets close. I’d also second the chainring concern from the other folks, that gap looks way more sketchy than the tire clearance to me.
If you’re set on keeping it in that cage, at least strap it down with a voile or toe strap so it can’t vibrate out and jam into the spokes mid ride. A standard Nalgene is just too wide for most mountain bike frames in my experience, I had the same issue on my old hardtail and ended up going with a smaller bottle. Sucks because nalgenes are indestructible but the tradeoff is they barely fit anywhere on a bike.