How To Install Bell Universal Water Bottle Mount

Here's a simple 1! In today's post nosotros'll tackle an easy (simply super useful) upgrade, calculation a water canteen cage to your bicycle!

This is some bully "gateway maintenance" if you're but getting started turning a wrench or your kids desire a bike project they tin can work on besides. Fast, easy, and really really hard to mess up – let'due south install that hydration station!

What You Demand

4mm allen wrench
Water bottle muzzle
Braze-on bolts (already on frame)
Water bottle

Permit's Install!

Nosotros'll begin by removing the bottle cage bolts in the frame. Decide where you want to mount your bottle and focus on the ii bolts on that tube.

Employ your fingers or the allen key to plough them counter-clockwise until they pop out.

Just brand certain to go on track of those bolts once yous remove them. They tend to bounce into hard to reach spots or simply straight upwardly turn invisible when you drop them on the shop flooring.

Next, position the bottle muzzle against the braze-ons where you'd like it mounted.

Paw tighten the bolts to hold the cage in place.

And once you're satisfied, tighten 'em downwards with the wrench to really secure everything upwards.

For the pinnacle bolt, yous may accept a hard time getting your y-wrench in there, but information technology'due south an easy task for an L-shaped allen wrench!

But if the y-wrench is all you lot've got: no worries! Firmly, but gently, bend the bottle muzzle back until you have clearance to get your wrench in there. So tighten the commodities downward.

The canteen cage is aluminum, and so you don't want to curve it everyday considering it'll fatigue, merely it makes installation easier and it'due south a handy trick for when you pick upwards a new bottle that might have slightly different dimensions.

And now your cage is secure!