Empowering The Bicycle Traveler

Touring Bike Accessories

King Cage Tool Pouch

*Note updated Cage is now know as the King Cage Kargo Cage and includes the bottle cage and the pouch!  Finding a place for all the small things that need to be readily accessible when I'm touring.... like tools....is a constant challenge. Ron Andrews at King Cage seems to always be tinkering and coming up Read More

Fenders, a Comparison

(Update 10/2/2014: SKS have updated their fender line and the Chromoplastic fenders and Longboard fenders have been combined and are now called SKS Chromoplastic Longboards) The SKS Longboard fenders are in at the Bike Touring News Store. I have been anxious to see how long these really are. So I did a side by side Read More

How does one lock their bike when on a tour and stopping at a grocery store or restaurant?  There are actually quite a few options here. At the most basic level we can assume that most people are honest and the main purpose of locking the bike is to keep them that way. If a Read More

King Cage

We have been using King brand bottle cages on our bikes for years. Ron Andrews is King Cage and he makes a standard style cage in stainless steel and titanium and the "Iris" cage in stainless steel. These cages are the bomb. They are light and strong and, unlike aluminum, they retain their spring so Read More

Racktime Travel-It

(NOTE 10/31/2016: Racktime no longer has a distributor in the USA) (NOTE 11/12/14:  Since this review, Sky King has used these panniers a several trips and the performance was most excellent.) This is not really a review- I have not had a chance to actually use the Racktime Travel-It panniers yet- more like my impressions Read More