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.
Specs
| Material | Virgin rubber with stainless steel insert |
|---|---|
| Colour | Black with coloured lettering |
| Tested | Facility tested, 10,000 drops from 8 ft |
| Tolerance | ±3% on 10, 25, 35 and 45 lb |
| Diameter | 450 mm (17.72 in) for 45, 35 and 25 lb; 445 mm (17.51 in) for 15 and 10 lb |
| Insert | 50.4 mm (1.98 in), stainless steel |
| Hole size | 2 in |
| Plate thickness | 10 lb — 0.94 in; 15 lb — 1.13 in; 25 lb — 1.63 in; 35 lb — 2.25 in; 45 lb — 2.81 in |
| Warranty | 3 years on 25, 35 and 45 lb; 1 year on 10 and 15 lb — home and commercial |
These figures are copied from Giant Lifting’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 Giant Lifting before you buy.
Choose this one if
- You want to read the loaded weight at a glance rather than counting plates
- You want colour coding without dropping to a cheaper rubber
- You want a published drop-test figure
The detail
Dimensionally and materially these are identical to the Base plates — same virgin rubber, same stainless insert, same thicknesses, same ±3% tolerance, same 10,000-drop facility test, same warranty ladder. The only difference is that the raised lettering is colour-coded rather than white.
That is worth paying for or not, depending on how you train. Colour coding lets you read a loaded bar across the room instead of counting identical black discs — which matters when you are training alone, changing weights between sets, or coaching someone. Miscounting a loaded bar is a real error.
Note what colour does not cost you here. The usual route to a coloured plate is recycled crumb rubber, because that is how pigment gets in — which is what makes PRX's Color Fleck plates cheaper and less durable. Giant colours the lettering rather than the rubber, so the plate underneath is unchanged.
Raised rather than printed lettering is what makes that last. Giant's stated reasoning is that raised text prevents friction points between plates, so the face does not scuff.
"Facility tested, 10,000 drops from 8 feet" is a concrete claim rather than an adjective, and rare enough to be the main reason to consider this range at all.
±3% tolerance is the honest weakness — 1.35 lb on a 45 lb plate. For training that is irrelevant; for anything where accuracy matters it is not.
The warranty splits 3 years on 25 to 45 lb and 1 year on 10 and 15 — small bumpers fail sooner, universally. Do not drop 10s alone on the bar.