Hop-Sport Trap Bar 50 mm, 250 kg, Spring Collars

The Hop-Sport Trap Bar is the number 8 entry in this guide. It is priced at £89.00 and rated 4.5 out of 5 from 29 ratings. The listing rates it for 250 kg and gives the bar's own weight as 13.2 kg, and those two figures are where this entry gets interesting. The cheapest bar in the guide, at £65.23, weighs 6.58 kg and claims 400 lb (about 181 kg). The 20 kg bar from Titan is quoted at 500 lb (about 227 kg). Hop-Sport's bar weighs less than that 20 kg bar but is rated for more, at 250 kg (about 551 lb). Read down the list by weight and the claimed capacities do not follow the same order.

The listing carries a second thing worth noticing. The product name leads with "Trap Bar 50 mm", but the bullet text says the sleeves are 25 mm for standard plates, with 50 mm adapters included so Olympic plates will fit; the spec table then lists a Grip Size of 25. So the 50 mm in the title belongs to the adapter, not to the sleeve the plate sits on. The Part Number field reads "Barre d'haltérophilie", a French description in a field meant for a part number. The ratings breakdown supplied with this listing shows 5 one-star, 4 three-star, 19 four-star and 72 five-star ratings — 100 in total, against the 29 in the Customer Reviews field. Everything on this page is taken from the Amazon listing; we have not weighed the bar or tested it.