Accessories & essentials
Small items decide how organised a long ride feels: secure bottle cages on rough roads, enough water capacity between refills, and packing cubes that keep a bag in order.
These are the accessories we have approved, from water bottles and cages to packing cubes and a folding bowl for camp.
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All accessories & essentials
- Anniversary 13 Bottle - Smoke - 22oz — Ornot
This 22oz bottle holds your favorite liquid and features a race number that's right side up, ornot.
- C.I.M. Bottle Cage — Enve Composites
A carbon-reinforced, injection-moulded bottle cage with full-contact rails and a tuned grip, made to stop bottles creeping out or ejecting on rough gravel and washboard.
- Blue All Over Bottle - 26oz — Ornot
This recyclable plastic bottle holds 26oz of your favorite liquid, and is blue all over, Ornot. 100% BPA free and printed with non-toxic inks.
- SES Aero Carbon Bottle Cage — Enve Composites
A wind-tunnel-shaped carbon bottle cage designed to reduce the aerodynamic drag that bottles and cages add — a small gain on fast gravel races and long exposed stretches.
- Cygolite Front Light Hotrod 110 — Ornot
Have you ever wondered what kind of front light we use for visibility?
- Sideload C.I.M. Bottle Cage — Enve Composites
A side-entry version of ENVE's C.I.M. cage for frames where bottles are hard to reach from above. Available in left- and right-hand versions.
- Cygolite Rear Light Hotrod 90 — Ornot
Have you ever wondered what kind of rear blinkie light we use?
- Water Bottle — Enve Composites
A 22 oz (650 ml) ENVE-branded bike bottle. Simple and useful as an extra bottle when long gravel routes have few places to refill.
- Decade Bottle - 22oz — Ornot
Put it on a shelf next to your commemorative coins, or dirty it up in your water bottle cage. Either way, this is guaranteed to 10x your bitcoins in another 10 years, Ornot.
- Water Bottle Cage — Enve Composites
A lightweight, 19 gram, carbon bottle cage that securely holds bottles and has ENVE durability.
- Folding-Bowl — Ortlieb
A collapsible bowl for washing up and laundry on multi-day trips that packs flat when empty. ORTLIEB notes it is not suitable for food or drinking water.
- Packing Cube — Ortlieb
A padded packing cube with an inner compression strap and a built-in folding board, for keeping clothes tidy inside panniers or bags on longer trips.
- Packing Cube Bundle — Ortlieb
Two packing cubes (6 and 12 litres) with folding boards plus a hanging toiletry bag — useful on bike trips that mix nights in tents and hotels.
- Packing Cube Set — Ortlieb
Three stackable nylon inserts (two 6-litre, one 5-litre) for organising clothing, tools and toiletries inside ORTLIEB panniers and Bike-Packers.
- Water-Bag — Ortlieb
The lightweight alternative to plastic or aluminium bottles. The compact Water Bag features straps for fixing to the backpack, and is made of tear-resistant and watertight fabric.
- Water-Sack — Ortlieb
Goodbye bulky containers. The ORTLIEB Water Sack ensures reliable water supply in your camp doing without big and bulky canisters.
What to look for
Plan water between refills
Check how far apart water stops are on your route and carry enough capacity for the longest gap.
Side-loading cages for small frames
Side-loading cages make it easier to reach a bottle when a frame bag fills most of the frame triangle.