RideWrap Announces Updated Universal Fit Bike Protection Options
PRESS RELEASE: RideWrap
Nobody wants to think about their bike getting thrashed, we would rather ride!
By now, most of us know that adding RideWrap protection can preserve your bike and your investment. When protecting your bike you are inherently increasing aesthetics, longevity, resale value, and most importantly - your peace of mind.
The Collective Series, our range of universal fit products, offers several degrees of protection to match your needs. This ensures that riders can take advantage of bike protection no matter the style of bike or budget!
For 2020 we are excited to announce that we have updated a slew of the products; expanding, redesigning, and adding products that are ready to bear the brunt of destruction while riding your bike.
Covered Protection
Covered Protection kits offer leading coverage within their category. They are designed around one concept, maximum coverage with minimal trimming.
Covered Protection is intended to protect high-risk areas of your bike from scratches, chips, small dents, and scuffs caused by trail debris, rocks, cable rash, heel or ankle rub, and other environmental elements that are thrown into the mix when out on the trails or road. A Covered Protection frame kit includes pieces for your toptube, downtube, seatube, 4-stays, and a bunch of extras.
Bikes are unique. For 2020 we have expanded the Covered Protection range to offer protection that is specific to each frame style. While each kit provides coverage for the key areas of the frame, piece geometries are tweaked against our extensive library of data to ensure that each specific frame type is taking advantage of our max coverage with minimum trimming design ethos.
Frame Styles Available:
• MTB / Dual-Sus
• eMTB
• Hardtail MTB
• Steel MTB
• Road & Gravel
• MTB / Dual-Sus
• eMTB
• Hardtail MTB
• Steel MTB
• Road & Gravel
When you buy a RideWrap protection kit, you are set up for a successful install.
With every kit, we include the installation tools required to complete the job along with easy to follow instructions and diagrams. New for 2020, we now include install solution concentrate, the slippy stuff that makes it easy to reposition your pieces, with each kit.
Our goal is that riders can easily do a great install at home and get back out on the trails with a protected bike. If anyone ever has questions about the install, we have a commitment to real customer support via phone and email.
Protection kits are available in both Matte or Gloss finish and feature self-healing film, stain-resistance, optical clarity, and durability. Each protection kit includes pre-install cleaning wipes, install solution concentrate, a squeegee, a microfiber, and stickers; all that riders need to provide themselves is a spray bottle.
$65 USD / $80 CAD / €70 incl. VAT
Shuttle Armor
The Shuttle Armor is a mainstay for riders throwing their bike on the back of the truck for ‘just one more lap’. Protecting your downtube against the abrasion of a tailgate pad, these stick-on polyurethane protectors are gluttons for punishment.
For 2020, we have refined the Shuttle Armor’s design. The profile has been tweaked to maximize long term adhesion on any downtube shape and the styling has been updated while maintaining the same great durability.
Available in Matte Black
$20 USD / $25 CAD / €20 incl. VAT
Chainstay Armor
New for 2020, the Chainstay Armor offers a soft rubber compound to soak up those harsh hits from the chain. We supply more than enough so that you can also apply to areas of acute wear that you think might need added protection.
The roll of material offers a ton of value at 50mm x 1000mm allowing you to fine-tune your protection needs. Trim to fit, create a notched noise attenuator, or wrap up a tube for 360 coverage; one roll is going to allow you to add some protection to a couple of areas on a couple of bikes.
Available in Matte Black
$20 USD / $25 CAD / €20 incl. VAT
Available Now!
Riders globally: at your local bike shop and RideWrap.com
US dealers: Quality Bicycle Products (QBP)
Canadian dealers: Orange Sport Supply
Central and South American dealers: Quality Bicycle Products (QBP)
WorldWide dealers: RideWrap.com
Riders globally: at your local bike shop and RideWrap.com
US dealers: Quality Bicycle Products (QBP)
Canadian dealers: Orange Sport Supply
Central and South American dealers: Quality Bicycle Products (QBP)
WorldWide dealers: RideWrap.com
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Ya, just keep your little diagram (no biggie if not) and send us an email with the numbers you'd like to purchase, our team will calculate material usage and go from there! Try to make it easy and reasonable to keep your bike looking spiffy
Ride wraps exist because we all all lazy f*cks who don't want to waste time making our own templates.
RideWrap also includes all the install tools, which others dont, including going to buy 3m. A product is more than the sum of its individual materials.
Not knocking the company. They fill a niche that people have a desire for. There are just cheaper options to accomplish the same exact thing. Scotch gard for the your frame. Squeegee, baby shampoo, and spray bottle from walmart, CVS, or amazon.
You want a chainstay protector or a down tube protector. Many options. Old tire, flex pipe conduit, custom mold rubber with a high durameter, thermal plastic, or 3M film. You put an old grip around that area it will still be cheaper than a 20 EU guard.
heres a link to the great site in North America. You want thermal plastics cool they have it. chainstay protector will be made for 5 different bikes for the price of 1 ride wrap. You want install supplies they have it. You want a shit ton of Loctite, you got it.
www.mcmaster.com
What dafuq are you smoking? a product what it is. The little install kit, is the experience. You can function perfectly fine without the kit. Its like saying; you NEED a condom for sex. No you don't that condom is so you wont spawn little ones in 9 months or get a STI.
Yes, as they said in the release, they are now sending out the slippy stuff for install along with the squeegee, wipes, and microfiber. The only thing you'd need is a spray bottle, and I'm certain you have one under your sink.
Do you not value design and experience? I've cut all sorts of random materials and glued them to my bike, i'd happily pay for someone to think things through and create a proper solution made for the purpose instead of collecting random bits from an industrial website that also sells caster wheels and tube cutters. There are many ways to achieve a goal, some are just better suited for the job.
Then I have more time to ride and spend time with my family and friends. That is a pretty good trade-off. Not lazy - just good time management and optimizing my life.
It takes our trained engineers ~8 hours to design a kit for a new model its first size after the measurements have been taken, we then test fit to confirm and modify before it reaches you. We aren't putting a man on the moon, but a lot of technology, thought, time and experience go into designing each model so that it installs and looks great. Also, we source our specific materials from factories, not Bezos :-)
Across the board, our team designs and then works with factories to source our materials. Each material undergoes testing with bikes to ensure that the durability is up to a standard that we would like, adhesion properties work specifically for bikes, and the install experience is up to standards.
In the case of Chainstay Armor, we sought to provide a well thought out product with good value. Most tapes in the same category are sold in 25mm by 3000mm sizes. We found that the 25mm simply does not allow us to properly cut a single trim fit piece for the chainstay, we'd have to use two pieces in parallel and that didn't pass our aesthetics test so we doubled up to 50mm. We also examined and specified our adhesion properties so that you could cut a smaller piece, as having them fall off was an issue, so this stuff is sticky. From a pure value perspective, in Canada, a roll of 25x3000 goes for ~$58 + shipping if not locally available equating to $0.08/cm^2. The Chainstay Armor is offered at $0.05/cm^2, is available at your bike shop or as an add-on to your online order and includes some prep cleaning.