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Need a New Oly Bar in UK

Olympic Lifting
#1

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I broke my York oly bar on Tuesday. The oly collar on one side broke in two, while I had it overhead snatching!! Anyway more importantly i now do not have a bar with which to train. :(. I love in the UK and was wondering if anybody had advice on where to buy a decent oly bar in the uk (would order from US but shipping is like $200!!) that can take some punishment and won’t break from repeated dropping ( what I’m putting the cause of the previous break, even though I only had an extra 15kg on bar as warming up)!

I regularly train the Olympic lifts, and also the big three with a reasonable weight, and have bumpers do that I can drop onto a plywood base!!

Any thoughts of models or where to buy would be greatly appreciated

#2

strengthshop

They got there some nice bars. One for £189.99 and other for £89.99

#3

[quote]TomasK wrote:
strengthshop

They got there some nice bars. One for £189.99 and other for £89.99[/quote]

2nd that

#4

How much do you have to spend?

#5

Not too fused but think £300 max but would go maybe £100 more if I the difference could be justified. But prefer to spend ~£200

#6

Strength Power Speed sells the Pendlay NexGen HD bar.

I have an SS bar - decent enough bar for the money, but quite stiff, and the markings are not IWF spec. Only use it for squats and pressing now I have a shiny new Eleiko.

Try emailing Rogue Europe and see what they can do for you.

#7

Cheers guys thanks for the help. Looking to get hold of rogue Europe, and get hold of the B

#8

Since all of your responses, I’ve been looking around and am now torn between options.

The B

#9

My last post did not seem to work

Torn between getting the:

B

#10

The site does not seem to like the “and” short hand symbol so here we go again!

Torn between the:
Burgner and rip bar at 280? 45? shipping
Thr rogue bar at 270? 45? shipping. (the guy at rogue, the supplier of both recommended the rogue as a betters all round bar!)
The Pendlay next gen had bar 349£ ?shipping (bit pricy but doable if massive beatific over others!)
Or an unbranded from strengthsport.co.uk. Which is an “Olympic weightlifting bar - 2200mm(L), 20kg, 28mm spring steel shaft black zinc plated, rated 1500lbs, chrome sleeves, available with either brass bushings or with needle bearings” can be seen at (https://www.strengthshop.co.uk/equipment-and-bars/olympic-weightlifting-bar.html) going for 189£ shipping

The last one seems preferable form a price perspective but as u branded hard to get any feedback on it apart from their site

If I were to go for it should I opt for the brass bearings or the needle brushings?

Cheers rich

#11

[quote]Moonboots wrote:

If I were to go for it should I opt for the brass bearings or the needle brushings?

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Neither of those lol, bearings because they spin better and its BRASS BUSHING which is just a a brass circle that spins around the shaft.

You didn’t do much research did you?

#12

powerhousefitness are good!

#13

[quote]Swolegasm wrote:

[quote]Moonboots wrote:

If I were to go for it should I opt for the brass bearings or the needle brushings?

[/quote]

Neither of those lol, bearings because they spin better and its BRASS BUSHING which is just a a brass circle that spins around the shaft.

You didn’t do much research did you?[/quote]

I did I just got pissed off because I gas write the post 2 times but the forum did not like the andpersand symbol and refused to include the rest of my post so I did it from memory. So if I were to quote correctly. Should I go for the needle bearings or the brass brushing on this bar, which is dubious ATM due to lak of independent reviews!!