Restrap has a unique new bikepacking Bumper Bar that’s something in between a micro rack and a randonneur decaleur. Developed to stabilize bikepacking bar bags especially on smaller bikes or those with low stack height, it also is a stable point to mount a headlight, or even stow a small tool kit or rain jacket. The Bumper Bar keeps whatever you have strapped to your handlebar away front your headtube, cables & front tire, and only takes up the height of one 3mm headset spacer.
Restrap Bumper Bar bikepacking stabilizer
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The new Restrap Bumper Bar is a bit tricky to explain, at least for those adventure riders who haven’t already realized that they needed something like this. If you have a bikepacking or randonneur bag hanging off your bar that sways while you ride, bounces down against your front tire when you hit big bumps off-road, or seems to keep damaging your external cables… this is what you’ve been waiting for. A simple stabilizer for that front bag that likely will fit every single bike with a 1 1/8″ threadless stem.
Just swap out a 3mm spacer under your stem, and the Bumper Bar will give you something to secure your bar bag to, better than any strap back to the headtube or down to the fork crown.
And while it isn’t really a rack, you could also strap a spare rain jacket or a tool roll repair kit to it using the built-in slots, with or without a big bikepacking bag setup.
Restrap includes 5mm mounting holes & slots both on the top and bottom edges of the Bumper to provide a fixed attachment point for accessories like a headlight or camera. Plus, they shaped the Bumper Bar so most adjustable accessories like lights that you would normally clamp around your bar, can also be strapped to the Bumper.
Tech detail
The Restrap Bumper Bar is made of 3mm thick cold-formed CR4 steel plate shaped to keep your bag and accessories around 75mm in front of your headtube – on bikes with carbon, alloy, or steel steerer tubes. With a heavy-duty powdercoat finish, the Bumper Bar weighs 178g made up of a bent front grill and 30mm strap slots for maximum compatibility.
Restrap suggests a max carrying capacity of around 1kg, since it is meant more of a support cantilevered off your steerer than a rack.
Restrap Bumper Bar – Pricing & availability
The little Bumper Bar gadget sells for £40 / $60 / 48€ in a 1.125″ one-size-fits-all that can work with almost any bike without an oversized upper steerer (no 1 1/4″ or straight 1 1/5″ steerer bikes). It is available now direct from Restrap or one of their partner bike shops.
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Cory Benson is the EU Tech Editor of Bikerumor.com.
Cory has been writing about mountain bikes, enduro, cyclocross, all-road, gravel bikes & bikepacking on and off for over 25 years, since before several of these even had names in our industry.
Prior to that (and at times, concurrently), Cory worked as an Architect specializing in environmental sustainability, a IBD bike shop designer & consultant, an independent product designer, a bike shop mechanic, and a mountain biking instructor.
Based in the Czech Republic for over 15 years, Cory spends much of his time traveling around Europe, riding bikes, and meeting directly with many of cycling’s key European product developers, industry experts & tastemakers for an in-depth review of what’s new, and what’s coming next. A technical off-road rider at heart since the 1990s, Cory’s cycling has evolved to cover everything from the wide range of riding aero road bikes on dirt roads to thrashing enduro bikes in the European bikeparks & trail centers, with plenty of XC, CX & gravel in between.