Comfort
* Padded biking shorts
* Power Grips: these allow you to wear regular shoes, sneakers, sandals while clipping you in.
* Grips: Padded Ergons with bar-ends
* Handle-bar: a butterlfy bar for varied hand positions
* Wider, greater volume performance tires (Schwalbe Marathon series)

Performance
* Lower gearing through smaller chainring, a wider range cogset (Shimano XT 11-42 or 11-40), and/or a Dual-Drive internal gear hub
* Wider tires for gravel
* carrying more weight in the front on the luggage plug on the head-tube