Fassa Separator bike protector review

The padded Fassa Separator bike protector promises to help keep your bike free from damage when not being ridden – we put one through its paces to see if our current old blanket in the boot of the car really needed an upgrade

Fassa Separator bike protector
Cycling Weekly Verdict

The Fassa Separator is expensive for what is effectively a padded blanket, but it's exceptionally well made and it's simple design and ease of use is really appealing. Once you start using it, it's incredibly handy and makes it hard to go back to the old oily blanket solution. Some riders will salute, some will slate, but don't expect to find anything similar for much cheaper. 

Reasons to buy
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    Quick and easy to use

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    Padded

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    Protects adult bike with wheels

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    Flexible (easy to fold away)

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    Low volume

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    Ripstop PE Fabric

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Reasons to avoid
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    Expensive for what it is

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    Could do with more straps

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Your bike is always vulnerable to knocks and scrapes when you're storing or transporting it – and that's where the Fassa Separator bike protector comes in.

Until now – unless you have a cavernous garage with specific bike parking – the only real way of looking after your pride and joy when it's not being ridden was by either packing it away in a cumbersome bike bag or leaving it to the mercy of an oily old blanket.

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Hannah Bussey

Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.

Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.

For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas. 

She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection.