Your number plate belongs on the front of your bike, not folded around your bars. The Headliner bolts your race number to a rigid plate and zip ties it to your head tube in about ninety seconds. Your bars stay clear for a light, a computer and a camera. Your timing chip stays flat and stays working.
$10 for one size. $15 for both.
Every event morning starts the same way. You are in a parking lot with a number plate, four zip ties and a set of instructions that assume your bike looks like the one in the diagram. It does not. So you bend the plate around the bars until it sits at some angle, and you hope.
Then you find the timing chip. It is taped to the back of the plate you just folded in half.
The Headliner fixes the whole thing. Your number bolts flat to a rigid plate. The plate mounts to a block that sits on your head tube. Two zip ties, pull tight, ride.
Your number stays flat. Which means your timing chip stays flat. No creases, no cracked chip, no standing at the finish line explaining why you have no result.
Your cockpit stays yours. Light, computer, camera, bell, whatever you run. The Headliner is nowhere near your bars, so you stop choosing between your race number and everything else you actually want up front.
It fits your bike. The block has a concave face cut to a 46 mm radius, which sounds like a small detail and is actually the whole design. Tubes smaller than 46 mm drop into the curve and centre themselves. Tubes larger than 46 mm ride on both rims and centre themselves. Anything from a 25 mm seat tube to a 60 mm aero head tube seats properly. One shape, no adapters, no shims, no second version for gravel bikes.
Two parts. That is the parts list. The mount and the number. Nothing to assemble, nothing to lose in a hotel room, nothing that snaps in the cold. Bolts and double sided tape included.
Printed to order in Vancouver.
