Texas Power Bar (7th Generation)
The Buddy Capps bar, in its seventh generation. A 29mm ultra-stiff shaft at 200,000+ PSI, aggressive knurl, a 5-inch centre knurl and 16-inch loadable sleeves. Inside collar width 51 5/8 inches.
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 Strength Shop’s or Texas Power Bars’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
A bar with a forty-year reputation among powerlifters, sold into the UK through Strength Shop so you are not importing it yourself. The knurl is genuinely sharp — not everyone wants that on a high-volume bench day.
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 Texas Power Bars’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 power bars
A 29mm shaft, almost no whip and a centre knurl that grips your back. Built for the squat, the bench press and the deadlift, and the standard diameter across powerlifting federations.
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 An em dash (—) means they do not publish that figure — it is never a number we have guessed.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 power 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