Dyedbro Gravel Bike Frame Protection stickers

The Dyedbro Gravel Bike Frame Protection Stickers is a collection of 12 stickers designed to protect the various parts of your gravel bike’s frame and fork. They’re available in numerous designs, from transparent to multi-coloured, and prevent scuffs, scratches and marks, as well as allowing you to customise your bike's looks.

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The Dyedbro's dozen stickers include protection for your bike’s down tube, seatstays, chainstays, top tube and fork and three small round stickers for preventing cable or strap rub. This covers most of the key areas of your bike and the different designs should mean there should be something for pretty much all of us, whether you want to add a striking design or keep your bike looking exactly the same.

As for the stickers' main use – protection – they work very well. Since I fitted these my bike has suffered no scuffs or marking, and they've given me peace of mind that I'm much less likely to scratch the frame when I've been fitting bags.

I found it quite easy to fit the stickers, though for best results a heat gun or hairdryer is recommended. This does take a little bit of time, but a handy QR code on the box links to a video.

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The instructions say that it is possible to fit and remove stickers by leaving the frame and stickers in the sun. I put this to the test in the warmth of some lovely Welsh sunshine and while it did work, the fit wasn't quite as good, with a few bubbles appearing. But in spite of this the stickers stayed securely in place and even in the rain – Wales again – there was absolutely no peeling. To remove the stickers, you simply reverse the process, and again there's a video to demonstrate.

You do need to cut some of the stickers to size to correctly fit them to your frame, and they come with cut lines that you can follow. That said, after cutting I still found them a little too large, so had to improvise and cut-to-size freehand.

The only other issue I had was when I tried to fit the fork stickers. First, I had to make a slight cut to fit the stickers around the brake cable, which protrudes from the internal routing in the fork. I got this to work, but then when it came to trying to cut out holes to be able to use my cargo cage mounts, I gave up. This is obviously a niche issue but it would be good to see options for these in the future.

Value

At £40 these aren't cheap, though their striking designs do give them a premium feel. And there aren't that many gravel-specific frame wraps either, which I think goes some way to justifying the overall cost.

The Muc-Off frame protection kit features a similar range of stickers with options to wrap the whole bike. However, these are only sized for e-bikes or mountain bikes, which makes them far harder to fit to a gravel bike – and they'll also cost you a heavyweight £65.

Both are fitted in a similar way though the Muc-Off variant requires slightly less heat.

Alternatively, you could go for something such as Zefal's Skin Armor that Matt liked when he tested it a few years ago. It's a simple set of small stickers and strips that could work with a gravel bike frame.

Conclusion

Gravel-specific frame stickers that offer effective frame protection, which come in both bright and transparent designs.