King Cage Korea | Handmade Water Bottle Cages from Durango, Colorado

Holding a bottle,
done right
for over 30 years.

King Cage is a water bottle cage workshop founded by Ron Andrews in 1991. He was making tools and machines in a frame shop when a customer asked for a bottle cage made from titanium, and the first titanium cage that came out of it was named the King Cage. He expected dealers to laugh at it. Instead, orders started coming in, and in 1996 a stainless steel cage joined the line.

Every cage is still made in the basement shop at Ron's home in Durango, Colorado. All materials are sourced in the USA, and cutting, bending, welding and finishing are shared between family and a few crew members. These are not stamped out by a factory; each one is bent on jigs and machines that people built by hand.

The 1991 shape,
still bent
one at a time.

The standard cage is the King Cage benchmark. Since its introduction in 1991, the titanium cage has set the standard for durability and design, and the stainless steel cage has been made in virtually the same shape since 1996. Both are hand-bent and welded, holding the bottle firmly on any road and any ride.

Titanium is light and won't rust. Stainless steel offers the same shape at a friendlier price, now with laser-welded joints that are smaller and more even. Both fit standard cycling bottles best.

Cycling bottles
and metal bottles,
in one cage.

More and more riders carry an insulated stainless bottle or a metal bottle instead of a cycling bottle. Iris and Flat Top are made for them. Beyond standard cycling bottles, they take metal bottles with a base of 2.9 inches (about 74mm). King Cage lists the Mover 18oz Purist, Klean Kanteen and Hydro Flask as examples.

Iris is designed to grip a little tighter than a standard cage, which makes it especially secure on the down tube where the bottle hangs at an angle. Flat Top keeps the standard cage shape and only flattens the top, so it takes bottles without a neck groove.

For bikes with
little room for a bottle.

Full-suspension MTBs, small frames, minivelos, touring bikes with frame bags. When there is little room inside the frame, pulling a bottle straight up gets hard. King Cage solves this by changing the direction and height of the same cage.

The Side Loader lets you put the bottle in and take it out from the side. It mounts left, right or center as you prefer, and even with side entry the bottle stays centered on the frame and sticks out no more than a standard cage. Bottle Lowering sits the bottle about 1.1 inches (about 28mm) lower, and Bottle Raising sits it higher for easier access.

Just as the name says,
a cage for
many things.

The Manything Cage is a titanium cargo cage for bikepacking. Big bottles like a Nalgene or a 40oz Klean Kanteen, tents and sleeping bags, pads and fuel all go on the fork or down tube. King Cage says it is even perfect for bringing a bottle of wine to dinner at a friend's house.

It comes in two kinds of titanium, solid rod for maximum strength or hollow tube for less weight, with optional orange King Cage branded Voile straps. The Longer Thing Cage, made for longer loads, has one more mount to carry more weight.

No cage bolts?
Make a place for one.

The Top Cap Cage Mount replaces your stem's top cap to put a cage in front of the bars. It is ideal when you want to drink without bending down, need an extra bottle, or have a frame too small for a cage. It fits most cages on any top cap style stem.

The Universal Support Bolt is a clamp that mounts a cage on a tube with no bolt holes. From handlebars and seat stays to suspension forks and fat aluminum tubes, choose one of six sizes to match the diameter where it goes.

Choosing a cage
for your bottle and bike.

Choose by the bottle you carry and how much room there is inside your frame.

From a tool shop in Somerville
to a basement workshop in Durango,
the King Cage story.

One titanium cage made at a customer's request became a family workshop that has lasted over 30 years. King Cage never moved to a big factory; it still makes each cage the way it did at the start.