Tailfin Cargo Cage review

Robust and lightweight with a wide range of clever features and integrations

Tailfin cargo cage
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Cycling Weekly Verdict

The Tailfin Cargo Cage comes with brilliant design features, including a modular “Load Chip” which enables long or heavy loads to be carried, many different mounting positions, integrated strap loops and a CNC’d construction making it robust and lightweight. It is expensive, but this is justified by its innovative features. The only thing that could improve it is some form of coating or bumpers to make carrying metal items more pleasant.

Reasons to buy
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    Robust

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    Versatile

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    Range of mounting options

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    Lightweight

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    Integrated bottle opener

Reasons to avoid
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    Expensive

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    No polymer coating

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The Tailfin Cargo Cage is an incredibly well thought out piece of kit, with a range of clever design features and integrations that will benefit bikepackers and anyone who simply wants to carry more things on their bike.

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Stefan Abram
Tech features editor

After winning the 2019 National Single-Speed Cross-Country Mountain Biking Championships and claiming the plushie unicorn (true story), Stefan swapped the flat-bars for drop-bars and has never looked back. 


Since then, he’s earnt his 2ⁿᵈ cat racing licence in his first season racing as a third, completed the South Downs Double in under 20 hours and Everested in under 12.


But his favourite rides are multiday bikepacking trips, with all the huge amount of cycling tech and long days spent exploring new roads and trails - as well as histories and cultures. Most recently, he’s spent two weeks riding from Budapest into the mountains of Slovakia


Height: 177cm

Weight: 67–69kg