Iribe O-Gata Stainless Steel Water Bottle Cage

Description

Iribe O-Gata water bottle cages are silver-brazed from tubular stainless steel by Mr. Iribe, a master Keirin framebuilder. (He was portrayed in the Summer 2014 issue of Bicycle Quarterly) While these cages are completely functional and superlight, they really are works of art. I love the little reinforcing plates that Mr. Iribe wraps over the joints to act as lugs, since you cannot easily fillet-braze stainless steel. Strong as stainless, but still only 37 grams!
This one is missing a spring that goes across the opening, but this would not be hard to fix.
I replaced the spring with something from my  parts pole, but I don't know what the original one looked like.
Thanks for looking and happy bidding!