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.
Specs
| Material | Recycled crumb rubber |
|---|---|
| Colour | Black base with colour fleck — 10 lb white, 15 lb orange, 25 lb green, 35 lb yellow, 45 lb blue |
| Collar opening | 50.6 mm ±0.2 mm |
| Fits | Olympic barbells, 2 in |
| Diameter | 17.75 in |
| Warranty | 10 years |
These figures are copied from PRX Performance’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 PRX Performance before you buy.
Choose this one if
- You want to read the loaded weight across the room without counting
- You want the longest plate warranty on this site
- You are loading moderate weight and drops are occasional rather than constant
The detail
Colour coding is a genuinely useful feature that gets dismissed as cosmetic. Being able to see at a glance that the bar has two blues and a green on it — rather than counting identical black discs — matters when you are training alone, changing weights often, or coaching someone else through a session.
The material is the trade. Recycled crumb rubber is chips bonded together rather than solid rubber like PRX's own Prime plates. Crumb is cheaper and it is why the flecks exist, but it sheds over time, loses shape sooner, and does not hold a sharp edge the way virgin rubber does. That is the honest cost of the look.
Against that, the warranty is ten years — by a distance the longest plate coverage here, where the Prime plates get two years on the heavy ones and ninety days on the light. That is PRX backing the material, and it materially changes the value calculation.
The same warning applies as on the Prime plates, and PRX repeats it: do not drop the 10 or 15 lb plates alone on the bar. Small bumpers of any construction fail that way, and crumb ones fail sooner.
At 17.75 inches these sit fractionally over the 450 mm IWF standard, so the bar height off the floor is right. The 50.6 mm collar opening is the same figure Rogue publishes for the Echo and should slide onto any Olympic sleeve without fighting.