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Blackburn Switchback Cage

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Blackburn Switchback Cage
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Average Rating: 4 out of 5
No. of Reviews: 2
Weight: 55g
RRP: £9.99

Description: Designed for the weight conscious mountain biker, the Metal Matrix Switchback weighs a mere 55g.

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Slow Joe

Posted: 16/02/01

'It costs a lot, but you'll save a fourtune in bottles!'

Strengths:
(In order of importance)

Grip. I've been using one of these for about 8 months, and never once has a bottle even so much as begun to come loose. I've been over the bars countless times, but now, in the case of a crash, I don't even bother to check the bottle because this cage is so reliable.

Looks. nice clean lines.

Weight. Virtualy weightless, although when it comes to a bottle cage, how this works as a selling point escapes me.

Weaknesses:
Price. A tenner is a lot to pay for this sort of item, although buying a cheap cage that sheads more bottles than the BBC does hair will very soon work out more expensive.

Overall:
It looks nice, it wont drop bottles, and it is easy to remove you drinking recepticle (I've said bottle too many times).

Yes it is light, but to be quite honest you are probably only saving 40g over the chunkiest lard arse cage on the market.

It does look pricey, but you will soon make up the cost, as you wont have to replace bottles.

Performance		100%
Reliability		100%
Value		80%

Overall Rating

93%

Dylan Lang

Posted: 21/02/01

'Very light but prone to bending (but not breaking)'

Strengths:
Very light, secure

Weaknesses:
Can bend quite easily.

Overall:
Definitely one for the weight conscious (which I'm not usually but I'd just built up a reasonably light FS bike and I was in the mood...), it's made of spindly tubing. Despite this, it is very capable of performing it's job - holding onto water bottles - especially when you consider than many much heavier ones lose bottles on bumpy trails.

It's only real drawback is that it can be bent quite easily. One unplanned near-dismount when I hit the water bottle quite hard with my knee, resulted in the cage being bent almost 45 degress around the down tube. It bent back into shape without fuss and doesn't seem to be any worse for it's accident.