Open beta · Hand-built in Berlin

A golf bag made for your bike rack.

Rigid case, KlickFix mount, fold-out leg. Clip it on, ride to the course, clip it off — and it stands up on the tee like any other golf bag.

The VeloCaddie v3 prototype: a tall clear hard case holding golf clubs, standing upright on its fold-out leg.
v3, the current prototype. Hard case, KlickFix hooks, fold-out stand. Ridden to golf every week for three seasons.

This is not a shop — nothing is for sale yet. VeloCaddie is one person in Berlin on the third working prototype, deciding what the first real product should be. If you ride a bike and play golf, five questions from you are worth more than any market study we could buy.

Why ride to golf

The best warm-up happens before you arrive.

Golf is a game of flexibility, balance and a quiet head. Cycling is cardio, fresh air and twenty minutes without a screen. Put them together and the drive to the course stops being the worst part of the day.

Cardio on the way there

Twenty minutes of easy riding gets the blood moving. You reach the first tee already loose instead of climbing stiff out of a car seat.

No traffic, no parking

Past the queue, straight to the rack. In most cities a bike beats a car door to door on a summer Saturday — and the tee time stops being a gamble.

A clear head by the first tee

Nothing empties your mind like a headwind. You arrive having thought about nothing for half an hour, which is roughly the ideal mental state for a golf swing.

No fuel, no noise

A round of golf outdoors, reached by burning nothing at all. It is the least complicated environmental decision available to a golfer.

How it works

Clip on. Ride. Clip off.

The mount is KlickFix — the pannier standard from Rixen & Kaul used on millions of bikes. No proprietary bracket, no custom rack. If your rack tube is 8–16 mm, it fits.

01

It hooks onto the rack you already have

A KlickFix rail on the back of the case drops over the rear rack and locks automatically. Off again with one hand, in about two seconds. Nothing to bolt on, nothing to leave behind at home.

Close-up of the KlickFix rail mounted on the back panel of the VeloCaddie hard case.
02

The rigid wall is the whole trick

Golf bags are soft, and soft bags cannot carry their own weight off the side of a rack. Making the bag rigid is what allows it to mount at all — and rigid also means your clubs arrive without a single scuff.

Top-down view into the prototype: fourteen club tubes arranged inside the clear case.
03

At the course it is just a golf bag

Lift it off by the handle, kick out the stand leg, and it stands on the turf like any bag. That is the part that matters: you are not unpacking a bike bag, you are setting down your clubs.

A hand lifting the prototype by its carry handle, with the stand leg folded flat underneath.
The open question

Two ways to build it. We genuinely don't know which is right.

Both are being built and ridden this season. They solve the same problem with opposite trade-offs — and the questionnaire below asks you which one you would actually want.

Version A

The Integral

One rigid case that is the golf bag. Clubs sit inside it on the bike and inside it on the course.

  • One object to own, carry and store
  • Lightest overall — nothing duplicated
  • Closest to the prototype already proven over three seasons
  • A hard case on your shoulder feels different from a soft bag
Version B

The Docking

A rigid shell stays on the bike. Your golf bag drops into it, lifts out at the course, and goes on your back as usual.

  • On the course you carry a normal, comfortable golf bag
  • Clubs are padded the whole way — no hard edges anywhere
  • The shell could fit bags you already own
  • Two parts instead of one, and more total weight

Read the full build log — v1 to v4

Made in Germany

Swiss brain, built in a Berlin workshop.

Every VeloCaddie so far has been cut, drilled and ridden by one person. The mount hardware comes from Rixen & Kaul in Germany, the thinking is stubbornly Swiss, and the testing happens on the way to a driving range in Berlin — every week, in whatever weather there is.

Mount standard
KlickFix, Ø 8–16 mm
Prototypes built
3, since 2023
Seasons ridden
3, weekly
Mount failures
None so far
Currently
Deciding version A or B
Five questions

Tell us what to build.

There is no product to buy yet, so there is nothing to sell you. What we need is the opposite: your honest answers, so the first real VeloCaddie is the one people actually want. Takes about a minute.

1. How often do you ride your bike to the range or the course?
2. How far is it, one way?
3. Which version would you rather have? A — one rigid case that is the golf bag. B — a shell on the bike that your golf bag drops into.
4. What would you expect to pay for it? Nothing is priced yet — this is exactly what we're trying to find out.
Doubts, deal-breakers, features, a rack that would never work — all of it useful.
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