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Plates

Bumpers, iron and change plates, and the width and tolerance specs that actually matter.

31 products

  • American Barbell

    American Barbell Urethane Competition Bumper Plates

    German urethane on a 140 mm one-piece chrome hub, with thickness published per size — minimal bounce, and no chipping.

  • Bells of Steel

    Bells of Steel All-Black Bumper Plates

    60% virgin rubber on a stainless insert with a 2-year warranty on the heavy plates — the middle of the bumper range.

  • Bells of Steel

    Bells of Steel Coloured Bumper Plates

    100% virgin rubber with low bounce and a stainless insert — colour without dropping to crumb.

  • Bells of Steel

    Bells of Steel Crumb Bumper Plates

    Half virgin, half recycled rubber on a stainless insert — 1% tolerance, medium bounce, and a warranty that tells you where the weak plate is.

  • Bells of Steel

    Bells of Steel Fractional Iron Plates

    Cast iron fractionals accurate to 16 grams with a 5-year warranty — the smallest honest jump you can put on a bar.

  • Bells of Steel

    Bells of Steel Machined Iron Olympic Plates

    Machined iron in a hammertone powder coat, 1% tolerance on the heavy plates and a 5-year warranty.

  • Bells of Steel

    Bells of Steel Technique Plates, 5 lb

    Full-diameter 5 lb plates at durometer 94-96 — bar height without bar weight, for learning the Olympic lifts.

  • Bells of Steel

    Bells of Steel Urethane Bumper Plates

    100% urethane on a reinforced chrome insert, with a lifetime warranty — the plate that stops being a consumable.

  • Fringe Sport

    Fringe Sport Black Bumper Plates

    Virgin rubber on a stainless insert with a lifetime warranty, and every plate width published — the spec sheet does the work here.

  • Fringe Sport

    Fringe Sport Black Training Competition Bumper Plates

    Competition-thin bumpers at training-plate prices — a 45 is 2.15 inches wide, which buys back real sleeve space over a standard bumper.

  • Fringe Sport

    Fringe Sport MilSpec Premium Bumper Plates

    Thick training bumpers with a competition-grade ±1% weight tolerance — accuracy without the competition-plate price, if you can spare the sleeve.

  • Fringe Sport

    Fringe Sport Savage Colour Bumper Plates

    The black bumper's construction in colour — virgin rubber, stainless insert, lifetime warranty, and you can read the bar across the room.

  • Fringe Sport

    Fringe Sport Savage Change Plates

    Rubber-coated cast iron microplates in four weights, sold by the pair — the cheapest way to stop stalling on a lift.

  • Giant Lifting

    Giant Lifting Base Bumper Plates

    Virgin rubber bumpers facility-tested to 10,000 drops from 8 feet, with stainless inserts and raised white lettering.

  • Giant Lifting

    Giant Lifting Contrast Bumper Plates

    The Base plate with colour-coded raised lettering — same 10,000-drop test, same stainless insert, readable across the room.

  • PRX Performance

    PRX Change Plates

    Powder-coated recycled iron microplates made in the USA — a 0.4-inch-thick 2.5 that adds almost nothing to your sleeve.

  • PRX Performance

    PRX Color Fleck Bumper Plates

    Recycled crumb rubber with a ten-year warranty — colour-coded so you can read the bar at a glance, at the cost of crumb’s durability.

  • PRX Performance

    PRX Elite Competition Bumper Plates

    Solid rubber on a steel disc insert at durometer 90-92, with thickness published per size — a 45 at just 2 inches.

  • PRX Performance

    PRX Fractional Weight Plates

    Colour-coded 0.25 to 1 kg fractionals thin enough to load without taking the collar off — 0.25 inches at the smallest.

  • PRX Performance

    PRX Prime Bumper Plates

    Solid-rubber bumpers with a warranty that splits by weight — and an explicit instruction never to drop the light ones alone.

  • REP Fitness

    REP Fitness Black Competition Bumper Plates

    Competition-grade bumpers in matte black, with a low-bounce compound, zinc-coated steel insert and a five-year warranty.

  • REP Fitness

    REP Fitness Calibrated Steel Plates

    IPF-compliant calibrated plates accurate to ±10 g, in an electroless nickel finish and as thin as 0.17 inches.

  • REP Fitness

    REP Fitness Change Plates

    Colour-coded rubber-coated microplates with metal inserts, accurate to 1% — the fix for a stalled press.

  • Rogue Fitness

    Rogue Color Echo Bumper Plates

    Colour-coded Echo bumpers at durometer 88 — thinner than the HG plates, and you can read the bar across the room.

  • Rogue Fitness

    Rogue Competition Plates

    Durometer 94 competition bumpers with published widths — the hardest, lowest-bounce plates here.

  • Rogue Fitness

    Rogue Deep Dish Plates

    Thick cast plates with published widths per size — a 45 that is nearly two inches wide, and that is the point.

  • Rogue Fitness

    Rogue Fleck Plates

    Durometer 90 multipurpose bumpers with a flecked finish — widths published for all six sizes.

  • Rogue Fitness

    Rogue HG 2.0 Bumper Plates

    Durometer 88 multipurpose bumpers, thick and forgiving — the volume seller, and the widest plates here.

  • Vulcan Strength

    Vulcan Absolute Training Bumper Plates

    Virgin rubber bumpers accurate to within 10 grams, with a shot-peened zinc-plated steel insert and thickness published per size.

  • Vulcan Strength

    Vulcan Prime Urethane Bumper Plates

    90 Shore urethane on a solid hard-chromed insert, with thickness published per size and a raised lip that keeps the profile low.

  • Rogue Fitness

    Rogue Echo Bumper Plates

    The default budget bumper — thin enough to load properly, quiet enough for a garage, and cheap enough to buy in quantity.