The King Cage
The King Cage

King Cage

 

King Cage

 

Simon Whiten

 

The King Cage is a bit special…

 

King Cage promise a handmade, lightweight, non-marking, super strength product, made from either tubular 3-2.5 titanium or from stainless steel.

 

The King Cage

The King Cage

 

We were sent the titanium version for review. The first impressions for anyone picking this up are that it is light; incredibly light. If adding weight to your bike is something you want to avoid, then this is a good bit of kit at just 28g.
 

The King Cage

The King Cage

 

In use it is tough and durable, the 3-2.5 titanium tubing accepting abuse without issue; it is easily up the job. It grips the bottle well, as you’d hope, and as promised does not mark your bottles.
 

The King Cage is available in stainless steel or titanium.

The King Cage is available in stainless steel or titanium.

 

Interestingly, the fat tubed titanium version looks great as well, so good in fact that I put it on a carbon frame, where the fat tubing didn’t look out of place. Of course it would be the perfect accompaniment to a titanium frame such as the Sabbath Mondays Child or the Van Nicholas Amazon Cross we reviewed recently.
 

The King Cage looks good on any bike

The King Cage looks good on any bike

 

The King Cage story is an interesting one. They are manufactured in the founder, Ron Andrew’s garage in Durango, Colorado, from US-sourced materials. The business came into being in 1991 when Ron, then working at One Off Titanium, was approached by a customer asking if he could get a bottle cage made from titanium; 23 years later, Ron is still making them.
 

Ron's Durango Garage workshop

Ron’s Durango Garage workshop


 
Ron has real cycle industry pedigree working at Fat City Cycles, Ibis Cycles, Merlin Metalworks, Jo Breeze Cycles, Ted Wojac cycles, and Yeti Cycles.
 
Whilst there are a lot of bottle cages on the market, you can immediately see that the quality of this particular product is of the highest standards.
 
So you want a King Cage eh?

So you want a King Cage eh?


 
So in summary, if you want a lightweight, durable bottle cage made from metal as opposed to plastic or carbon, then you can’t get much better than this. I’ll report back in a few months on how it’s holding up to a summer of heavy use.
 

Here you can see Ron in action (note that the video has loud music – and no it’s not garage…)

 

 

RRP: $60.00 / £39.99

 
More information from the King Cage website or check out Ron’s King Cage Facebook page for some of the other stuff he makes…
 
In the UK you can get your King Cage from a number of retailers such as Velotastic.

 
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Written by

Simon Whiten (London and Northumberland, UK) has been riding for over 20 years and raced the road and the track extensively in the UK and Europe. He is obsessed with the turbo trainer and the ‘shortcut to race fitness’.

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