American Barbell California Bar 20KG – Blackout Cerakote
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American Barbell built the California Bar for functional fitness athletes. It is a 28 mm weightlifting bar with a Cerakote-coated shaft, meant to take daily multi-lift use. This listing is the 20 kg bar in Blackout Cerakote.
How it compares
Cerakote is a thin ceramic-based coating that American Barbell uses for corrosion and abrasion resistance and for color. Choose the California Bar over the hard chrome Performance Training Bar when you want that finish and color on a 28 mm bar that sees mixed daily training.
Highlights
- Cerakote shaft. For corrosion and abrasion resistance, in Blackout.
- 28 mm weightlifting shaft. With Olympic knurl marks and no center knurl.
- Composite bushings. With hard chrome sleeves for impact protection.
- Made in the USA. Listed with a limited lifetime warranty.
Specifications
- Weight: 20 kg
- Shaft diameter: 28 mm
- Bar length: 2,200 mm
- Loadable sleeve length: 16.338 in
- Tensile strength: 190,000 PSI
- Rotation system: High-strength composite bushings
- Shaft / sleeve coating: Cerakote (Blackout) / hard chrome
- Knurl marks: Olympic
- Center knurl: No
- Application: Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting
- Warranty: Limited lifetime (per American Barbell)
- Origin: Made in the USA
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How to read an American Barbell bar
- Diameter. 28 mm bars (25 mm on 15 kg bars) are made for the Olympic lifts. 29 mm power bars are stiffer and add a center knurl for squats.
- Sleeve rotation. Composite bushings give smooth, quiet rotation in American Barbell's multi-lift bars. Its precision needle bearings are used in the bars built for Olympic weightlifting.
- Shaft finish. Hard chrome and Cerakote are coatings. A stainless steel shaft is uncoated and resists corrosion.
- Tensile strength. American Barbell's USA-made Olympic bars list 180,000–190,000 PSI. Its imported training bars list 160,000 PSI.
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