Bulldog Gear Men's Shorty Olympic Barbell — 183cm, 15kg
A 183cm, 15kg bar with a full 28mm men’s shaft, five needle roller bearings per sleeve and a 132cm collar-to-collar span. 190,000 PSI, Cerakote shaft, 223mm loadable sleeves.
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.
Who this bar is for
For a garage or spare room where a 220cm bar will not fit. A proper 28mm bearing bar in a 6ft package — the compromise is the short sleeve, which limits how much you can load.
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.
Other technique and short bars
Light bars for learning the lifts, and 6ft bars for garages where a 7ft bar will not fit between the walls. Lower load ratings — check them before loading up.
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 An em dash (—) means they do not publish that figure — it is never a number we have guessed.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.
All technique and short bars →Compare it against everything else
All 52 bars on one page, grouped by type, on the same set of published figures.
The full tableNot 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