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.
Specs
| Contents | 2 colour bumper plates (1 pair) |
|---|---|
| Weight | 10 to 55 lb each |
| Weight tolerance | ±1% of declared weight |
| Full diameter | 450 mm (~17.7 in) for 15 to 55 lb; 445 mm (17.5 in) for the 10 lb |
| Insert diameter | 50.3 mm, fits most 2 in sleeves |
| Plate widths | 55 lb — 2.75 in; 45 lb — 2.3 in; 35 lb — 1.8 in; 25 lb — 1.5 in; 15 lb — 1.15 in; 10 lb — 1 in |
| Durometer | 90 sHA (10 and 15 lb), 85 sHA (25 to 55 lb) |
| Material | Virgin rubber with a stainless steel insert |
| Warranty | Lifetime |
These figures are copied from Fringe Sport’s own published specs and were last checked on 2026-08-31. Manufacturers revise products without notice, and variants differ. Confirm anything your decision depends on with Fringe Sport before you buy.
Choose this one if
- You want to read the loaded weight at a glance rather than counting plates
- You want colour without dropping to crumb rubber to get it
- You want a lifetime warranty on plates you intend to drop
The detail
Colour coding gets dismissed as cosmetic and it is not. Seeing two blues and a green on the bar rather than counting identical black discs matters when you are training alone, changing weights between sets, or coaching someone through a session. Miscounting a loaded bar is a real error with real consequences.
What makes these worth attention is that colour usually costs you material. The cheap route to a coloured plate is recycled crumb, which is how the pigment gets in — the PRX Color Fleck plates are exactly that trade. These are virgin rubber with a stainless insert and a lifetime warranty, the same construction as Fringe's black bumpers, with a 50.3 mm insert instead of 50.4.
The durometer split is the same and the same good idea: 90 sHA on the 10 and 15 lb, 85 on everything from 25 up. Small bumpers fail because there is not enough rubber around the insert; making them harder is the correct engineering answer rather than a warranty disclaimer.
Published widths across the range — 1 inch for a 10, 2.75 for a 55 — let you work out what fits on your bar's sleeve before ordering rather than after.
The 450 mm diameter is the IWF standard, so the bar starts at the correct height. The 10 lb at 445 mm is fractionally smaller, so avoid loading it alone.
One percent tolerance is good, and it is the same across the whole range rather than relaxed on the small plates.