Multipurpose barBulldog Gear20kg · 28mmBushings

Bulldog Gear Home Gym Men's Olympic Barbell, 20kg

A 28mm bar on 240,000 PSI high-tensile alloy steel — the highest tensile figure of any bar on this page — with self-lubricating bushings, medium multi-purpose knurl and hard chrome throughout. Tested to 680kg.

A plain unbranded Olympic barbell on a gym floor beside a rack.
Illustrative image — not the actual product

That is not a photograph of this bar. Product photography on this page is illustrative. We are licensing real images of each bar and will swap them in per product as they arrive — until then the pictures show a generic unbranded bar of that type, not the product named beside them.

Published specification

Every figure below is Bulldog Gear’s own published specification for this bar, quoted rather than measured. Where a figure is not published it is not listed — there are no estimates in this table.

Bar weight20kg
Shaft diameter28mm
Overall length2200mm
Sleeve diameter50mm
Sleeve rotationPrecision self-lubricating bushings
Tensile strength240,000 PSI
KnurlingMedium multi-purpose
Centre knurlNo
Load ratingTested maximum load capacity 680kg
FinishHard chrome shaft and sleeves

Who this bar is for

A no-nonsense home gym bar. Bushings not bearings, so it is better suited to pressing and pulling than to high-volume Olympic lifting.

What this page is not

It is not a review. Nobody at OlympicBars.co.uk has trained on this bar, so there is no score, no star rating and no verdict here, and there never will be unless that changes and we say so plainly. What this page gives you is Bulldog Gear’s own numbers, laid out the same way as every other bar on the site so you can compare them, and a link to the shop so you can check the current price yourself.

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Other multipurpose bars

One bar for everything — 28mm to 28.5mm, dual knurl marks for both grip standards, moderate spin. What most home gyms and most mixed-training gyms actually need.

Other multipurpose bars compared on published specifications
BarWeightShaftLengthRotationTensileCentre knurlSold by
Rogue The Ohio Bar — Black OxideRogue20kg28.5mm220.3cmBushing190kNoRogue Fitness
Rogue Echo Bar 2.0Rogue20kg28.5mm220.3cmBushing190kNoRogue Fitness
Eleiko Performance Bar, 20kgEleiko20kg28mm220cmBearing236kYesEleiko
Eleiko Hybrid Bar, 20kgEleiko20kg28mm220cmBoth236kNoEleiko
Strength Shop Riot Hybrid Barbell, 20kgStrength Shop20kg28mm220cmBushing—NoStrength Shop
Mirafit M3 20kg Olympic BarbellMirafit20kg28mm220cmBearing190kNoMirafit

Every figure is the manufacturer’s or retailer’s own published specification. An em dash (—) means they do not publish that figure — it is never a number we have guessed. “Tensile” is tensile strength in thousands of PSI. “Rotation” is bushings, needle bearings, or both in the same sleeve. No prices are listed here, deliberately: check the current price with the shop.

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Compare it against everything else

All 52 bars on one page, grouped by type, on the same set of published figures.

The full table

Not sure what the numbers mean?

Tensile strength, whip, knurl depth, bushings against bearings — what each one changes when you are actually under the bar.

Specs explained