Cycling Accessories

Bike Accessories

Bike Exchange is your go-to source for bike info, cycling accessories, and finding your next mountain bikes, e-bike, or road bikes. Whether you need new bike wheels, tyres, upgraded handlebars or brakes, or bike accessories to make your ride more comfortable and convenient, Bike Exchange is the place to be! Learn more about the different types of cycling accessories and how they can help you have a more comfortable, functional ride by reading on!

What are Cycle Accessories?

Cycling accessories are items that make cycling a better experience but aren’t necessarily a “must-have”. Think storage baskets, bells, water bottle holders, and more. These accessories are sometimes included with your bike but aren’t always there. If you are looking for ways to upgrade your bike’s safety, convenience, or comfort, you need to find cycling accessories that work for you! From cycling shoes to performance upgrades and even children’s bike seats, the right accessories can make a significant impact on your enjoyment of the sport. Check out some of the most popular riding accessories below;

Bike Lights

Bike lights are a handy and protective bike accessory and a legal requirement when riding on the roads at night. Not only do they help you, the rider, see in dark or compromised riding conditions, most importantly, but they’ll also help other road users see you. Bike lights are designed for all types of riding. For example, mountain bike lights will usually offer incredible brightness to light up a trail at night literally. Simultaneously, lights for road cyclists are less bright for the safety of other road users.

Bike Tools

Bikes are efficient machines, but they need essential servicing to keep them running reliably. Bike tools are a wide range of items from essential Hex Keys and pedal spanners to work stands and workshop specific tools.

Bike Computers and Heart Rate Monitors

Cycling computers give us a wealth of real-time information that can include speed and distance to more detailed information such as gradient percentage, heart rate, temperature, cadence and much more. Many modern computers can also sync your ride data to popular online applications such as Strava and Map My Ride.

Bags

This encompasses a wide selection of cycling bags, including pannier bags, saddle bags, shoulder bags, wheel bags, bike bags and backpacks. There are many bags out there for all the bits and pieces that need to be moved around. Bike bags play a significant role in helping protect and carry your accessories or giving you peace of mind and ease when you travel with your bike.

Bike Pumps & C02 cartridges

Flats and punctures are an inevitable part of bike riding. Hand pumps and c02 cartridges are often essential items to carry in the event of a flat. They’re small, lightweight units that fit snugly on the down tube or into a jersey pocket. A floor pump is a better option for keeping your tyre pressure to the ideal level at home or work. Being larger in size, a floor pump is a breeze to use compared to a hand pump.

Bike Bottles, Cages & Bolts

Referred to as bidon and bidon cages, these allow you to take fluids such as water on the bike and are essential for anyone doing more riding than just a quick trip to the shops and back. Bidons and cages come in various colours and styles to ensure they fit with your bike or kit.

Bike Locks

For many of us, our bikes are our pride and joy and indeed, some of us seem to spend more on them than we do our cars. However, when you stop pedalling, you’re likely going to need to lock it up. Hence the need for high quality, reliable bike locks.

Sunglasses

Cycling sunglasses are an essential accessory that helps protect your eyes from UV rays, wind, rain, sand and other elements mother nature will throw your way when out riding.

Trainers

We offer a wide variety of trainers, from rollers you balance your bike on to resistance trainers you attach your bike to. Trainers are a great way to stay riding when it’s not ideal for taking your bike out. The weather might be against you, you might be time poor or may just feel more challenged riding a program indoors; either way,, BikeExchange has you covered.

Bike Car Racks

Car racks vary in size, the number and the type of bikes they can carry. Bike car racks will either be located on the rooftop or back of a vehicle.

Bike Chain Lubricants

Ensuring your drive chain’s smooth riding and longevity, chain lubricant is an essential accessory for all bike riders, irrespective of the type of bike riding they do.

Panniers

Bike baskets and panniers help you transport goods, so you don’t have to take the car or public transport. Laptops, groceries, work or school lunches, etc., can all be stored and transported well in bike baskets or panniers. Panniers are particularly useful for bike touring, offering generous carrying capacity for those needing to carry more than the fundamentals such as clothing, boots, bike tools and spares, even potentially cooking equipment.

Bike Child Seats

A great way to get the whole family moving, child seats can be installed onto specific adult bikes so the little ones can come along for the ride too.