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Apidura Bottle Cage Adapter puts Anything cages on any bike, adds bikepacking adjustability

Apidura Innovation Lab Bottle Cage Adapter, 2 to 3-bolt anything cage mount, on-bike
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Apidura’s Innovation Lab has its first-ever hardware component with a simple new Bottle Cage Adapter meant to ease adventure bike setup. Developed both to help lower water bottles for improved fit under bikepacking bags, but also to add 3-bolt Anything Cage compatibility to almost any bike with standard bottle bosses, the Apidura adapter may help you fit more gear on your bike…

Apidura Innovation Lab 2-to-3-bolt Bottle Cage Adapter

Apidura Innovation Lab Bottle Cage Adapter, 2 to 3-bolt anything cage mount, downtube detail
c. Apidura

Adaptable mounting brackets and bottle cage adaptors are super helpful for adventure riders looking to stuff more gear inside their frame, especially when paired with partial frame bags that fill much of your front triangle. And cage adapters aren’t especially new, we’ve seen Wolf Tooth’s great B-Rad system for years. But curiously, the simple 2-bolt to 3-bolt adaptor never made it to the WTC line-up, so Apidura’s Innovation Lab decided to create their own.

Tech details

Apidura Innovation Lab Bottle Cage Adapter, 2 to 3-bolt anything cage mount, two big bottles

The Apidura Bottle Cage Adapter does add about 4-5mm of stack height between your frame and cage, but allows for 55mm of up & down adjustment which should help fit more bottles, or bigger bottles into tight spaces. That could likely be a help both for cyclists with bikepacking bags, as well as other constrained situations like extra small frames or even full-suspension mountain bikes.

Apidura Innovation Lab Bottle Cage Adapter, 2 to 3-bolt anything cage mounts

The simple adapter is CNC-machined from 6061-T6 aluminum, anodized black, and weighs a claimed 22g. At 140mm overall it has 3-pack compatible spacing – each spaced 64mm apart – so you can mount a Salsa-style Anything Cage or a standard bottle cage in either the upper or lower position.

Apidura Cage Adaptor – Pricing & availability

Apidura Innovation Lab Bottle Cage Adapter, 2 to 3-bolt anything cage mount, simple So far, the new £21 / $23 / 24€ Bottle Cage Adapter is the first and only piece of hardware to come out of Apidura’s  Innovation Lab.

Each mount includes three 7mm long M5 stainless steel bolts needed for installation, so the bolts don’t stick through the mount to damage your frame. Standard head bolts should fit for installing the adapter to your frame, but some flat button-head bolts may not fit inside the recesses.

Apidura Innovation Lab Bottle Cage Adapter, 2 to 3-bolt anything cage mount, on-bike

Whether you need to squeeze an extra bottle into your frame or bolt-on ab Anything cage, the simple adapters are available now direct from Apidura or through their partner retailers.

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Astro_Kraken
Astro_Kraken
2 years ago

You can already do that with a Wolf Tooth B-RAD 3, you just have an extra hole.

CRS
CRS
2 years ago
Reply to  Astro_Kraken

And if you really want this EXACT layout, BBB offers one for very cheap.

jesse
jesse
2 years ago

There’s a lot of things coming from the innovation lab, this isn’t the first.
Looks cool though!

Jeff
Jeff
2 years ago
Reply to  jesse

Looked cool when Wolftooth did it a few years ago too. Plus Wolftooth has the side by side bottle mount and a 3 and 4 mount option. plus straps and other stuff. there is nothing innovative about this at all.

Steffen
Steffen
1 year ago
Reply to  Jeff

THIS one is only 22g and only 4mm thick. 😉

All other Systems are double the weight ( I know .. it just grams ^^ ) and higher in stack ‍♂️

THIS is the lowest profile and lightest one.. currently.. on the market

I’ve checked them all

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