Who needs water? The Bottle Lock puts a cable in your cage.
Carrying junk in your bike’s water bottle cage instead of filling it with delicious cool, refreshing water is probably as old as the bottle cage itself. Tools, keys and snacks can all be stowed either on an actual water bottle, or a water-bottle sized container. Now, you can so the same with a lock.
The Bottle Lock comes from rack makers Küat, and slides snugly into a standard cage. Inside, coiled like a low-security steel snake is a five-foot long, 8mm-thick cable (1/3 inch). Borrowing design cues from vacuum cleaner power cords, the cable unwinds to wrap around the nearest immovable street furniture before plugging back into itself.
A small compartment underneath opens up for stowing keys and other small items.
For anything longer than popping into a convenience store, you might want a stronger lock
It’s ingenious, and handy if you live in a very low-crime area. If your only worry about bike thieves is that the local yahoos might spot your ride and use it to get home drunk on a Saturday night, it’ll be fine. In a city, you may as well just leave the keys in the lock.
The Bottle Lock comes in black, white and pink. It costs $34, and will ship November 1st.
[Küat Bottle Lock](http://www.shopatron.com/products/productdetail/K%26%23252%3Bat+Bottle+Lock/part_number=BL0/10064.0.1.1.2352.59201.0.0.0?pp=12&) [Küat via [Urban Velo](http://urbanvelo.org/kuat-racks-bottle-lock/)]
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