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Buying a quality barbell

Worry less about the brand of bar and more about the weight your moving. I've lifted with the troy Texas bar and it is wicked good. Epic knurl, good whip, excellent piece of kit as I'm sure your 'kapps' bar is.

Seriously who gives a shit where or who made it. I seriously doubt there is that much difference.
 

It's been said before, I will say it again.

You get what you pay for when it comes to bars.
 
maybe I didn't get my point across. My Troy bar from Gym and Fitness arrived in a CAPPS box, with a CAPPS end plate and texas map on the end. I don't think Troy themselves actually make a Texas power bar, they just resell the CAPPS one.
I've also lifted on a 10 year old texas power bar still in use at the Muscle pit, and it's a great bar and doesn't have any capps or special map endplate.
 
Troy is a different company to Capps, maybe they do sell the Capps bar now, I don't know. But I was told different, I was also told to steer clear of the Troy bars as that company is known to have allot of their bars made in China and Taiwan, and apparently (only on the grape vine, I have no way to verify) there was a heap of Texas bars getting around that were bending years ago, they were all from Troy.

Here is Troy: Olympic Texas Power Bar

I can't find a website for Capps Welding

This is interesting
Strength Training and Fitness Products

As Brick says, who cares, I was just telling you what I found out and how, and why I made sure mine was a Capps.
 
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jchen said:
It's been said before, I will say it again.

You get what you pay for when it comes to bars.
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No doubt the above is true, I would kill for a texas bar in my home gym. The point I was making was in regard to the claimed superiority of the capps bar over the troy bar (as it turns out they are one in the same).

I have used the texas bars at GC Barbell (which from memory are Troy branded) and they are the best bar I have ever used. Freako gives them an absolute hiding with regular deads over 250+ and quite a few of his other lifters pounding them at 200+.
 

Actually they're the authentic Capps branded ones bought from Nick at UGE.

Is that you Nick? Welcome!
 
Hey Ben it is Nick mate, I will have to drop in and say Hi soon I have a serious dose of texas bar withdrawal.
 
The bar at GCB is a genuine CAPPS bar, as is my deadlift bar.
Troy as far as I know have NOTHING to do with CAPPS. They are completly different brands.
If they are infact selling their bars with the CAPPS end plate, I'm going to do some ringing around as that's sus as.
 
There's nothing suspect about it. From what I understand CAPPS manufacture for Troy.
I've seen this confirmed by Top USA lifters like Mike Tuscherer.
Maybe all the bad mouthing of Troy is from other distributors of Texas bars trying to claim exclusivity , I'm not interested in spending money with companies with bad business ethics.

I have no ties to any particular aussie distributors, I just try to buy the best equipment for my money, and have recently purchased plates from Ironedge, the bar from Gym and Fitness, and a squat rack from Ironmind and Ironmind was the only company I was not satisfied with the service.
I did look at UGE for a Texas bar but wasn't prepared to wait, and I'm glad I didn't as I ended up with the same bar for less.
 
Interesting.

I know when I looked at troy bars a while back, they were defiantly not CAPPS bars. I went and looked at them and used them.

Maybe CAPPS cut them a deal as they were ripping their bars off in the first place?

Ill find out some info and post back here when I get a response from either CAPPS or the Aus distributor.
 
Ripping off?
Google search Troy vs CAPPS texas bars. there's plenty of sites that confirm they are the same bar, either CAPPS make for Troy, or CAPPS sold the design to Troy. Yet other sites say the Mac Texas bar is the original one. None of the USA sites I checked bad mouth Troy. Gym and Fitness don't import the bars either, the official distributor is another company based in Brisbane that only wholesales, this is where my bar was shipped from
AOB-2000B Texas Power Bar
 
@Perthmac: Fwaaark dude, I been smashing Google for about an hour now and I have come to this conclusion: I can find basically anything I want to search for;

  • If I want info on Troy being the Capps, I can find it.
  • If I want info on them being different, I can find it.
  • I can find info on Capps making them and Troy distributing them.
  • I found stuff about Mac being the original as well???
So its got me fucked now

All I got to go on is what I have been told by people who lift, and they said don't buy the Troy, so I got the Capps That was why I rang around asking about the fwaarkin thing in the first place.
Sticky has actually used the Troy bar, but maybe it was one of their other bars Sticky, not an actual texas bar mate? seems odd you wouldn't know, if anyone would.

Perthmac, you seem so darn sure about it that I am doubting if Capps is actually different from Troy myself now. I definetly know they are different companies, but that don't mean Capps isn't sold by Troy I guess.

In any case I love my bar lol, so I'm happy I got it and from a dealer I trust, that's all one can ask for really.

But it would be good if you could find out some real info Sticky, as it would clear the ambiguity about this bar. I was so dam sure that Capps and Troy were different until now, of the same design but different manufacturers.
Sorry if I have misled anyone, but I was so darn sure Troy was the inferior manufacturer, and that Buddy Capps makes the real Texas power bar range.

Graeme
 
LOL, I was the same when I researched buying mine. I actually would have bought one from UGE if had been in stock, but since they weren't and I wanted straight away I took a punt on the troy based on google search.
My theory now is that anything branded as a Texas power bar is good enough for lifetime use at home gym. It's not quite as good as Eleiko, but considering Eleiko bars in Australia are 2-3 times the price they are in the USA, I think a Texas bar is better value, especially since the Eleikos are prone to rusting, and my home bar is stored outdoors.
 
PerthMac said:
especially since the Eleikos are prone to rusting, and my home bar is stored outdoors.
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Eleiko bars oxidize because they dont chrome the shaft of the bar, this helps with grip. so if u dont clean off chalk or sweat the bar will oxidize, i have a hand print on my bar where i grip for bench, my hands were sweaty lol i also keep my bar in the 'ze-rust' plastic the it comes in, this has slowed down the process of oxidization a fair bit (would stop the rusting but it now has small holes in it). basically to avoid major rusting all u need to do is wipe it down after each workout and keep it in a dry place where humidity cant get to it. my bar has a slight rusted appearance, nothing that will hinder performance.
 
I'm still learning here, so please excuse my n00b questions...

callan said:
basically to avoid major rusting all u need to do is wipe it down after each workout
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So what you are saying is that after each workout, you give your bar a good polish? Does that require a lot of effort and does it affect your recovery?

callan said:
i also keep my bar in the 'ze-rust' plastic the it comes in, this has slowed down the process of oxidization a fair bit (would stop the rusting but it now has small holes in it).
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Just so I am clear, does this mean that you normally keep your bar in a protective wrap, but your wrap has small holes in it, so your bar is now covered in red spots? What do you tell the pretty ladies when you show them your bar?
 
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