You spent time at Plaza Liquors evaluating your options, thinking of what would compliment the meal you plan to prepare, paid for your purchase, but when you get to your bicycle, you realize: where am I going to put this bottle?
Thankfully, Etsy user “Oopsmark” has this handcrafted leather and brass solution. Just make sure you face the label outward so people can bask in your excellent taste.
This article appears in Apr 28 – May 4, 2011.
Design check — unless there is an unseen strap to keep the front and rear leather pieces for shift, all it will take will be a few Tucson road bumps and the front and rear leathers will move apart sending the bottle straight for the bike crank and the street. Shortly followed by a rear tire flat from the broken glass.
Even if the straps are glued to the top tube, unless the bottom straps cinch tight, the bottle will come out. I think contact with legs will joggle it loose quicker than potholes.
I think it is mostly an art photo. The details don’t add up though. The seat is new, the paint and tires are scuffed and dirty, and there is no cable on the pulley.
If you follow the links, you’ll find the merchant dropped out of Mechanical Engineering school, and his other product is some type of leather wrist band that holds music files.