It's pretty good! The knurling is nice and grippy, everything feels rock solid stable, and the fact that the bar is 20kg and takes standard collars makes including it into a routine nice and unintrusive. The only downside is that the coating of the sleeves rubs of very quickly and leaves the bar prone to rusting. Then again, this is an axle bar, it doesn't need to be pretty, right?

Not quite the EZ curl bar fairy special, but not far from it either. The knurling has a good bit of bite to it, the sleeves spin well, and so far the coating has held up well for me. If you want a basic curl bar with no special features, this one fits the bill.

They're pretty good cast iron plates. Weight tolerances were very accurate for me, they look nice, only the coating tends to chip off after a few years. Not a big deal, especially considering how cheap they are.

Pretty decent piece of kit. The overall build quality is solid and the coating has held up well enough after a few years of use, there's only some chipping on the sleeves as expected. Knurling is a medium mountain type - could be a little bit more aggressive, but that's ultimately a matter of preference. The size is this trap bar's biggest selling point and of course it comes with benefits and drawbacks - if you're short on space (especially for carries!) this bar is great. The obvious drawback is the length of the sleeves - at 40 cm they're very short. If you're using exclusively bumper plates, you will top out at about three plates and change, but if you're using cast iron or steel plates, the length should be sufficient for the vast majority of lifters. Another drawback is that the bar is not rackable in the typical sense - the sleeves already start on the inside of whatever uprights you're using, so if you actually want to lift out of the rack, you'll have to separate off a bit of sleeve space with collars. Of course that leads to there being even less loadable sleeve space, so if you're looking for a trap bar to do heavy rack pulls with, this is definitely not the one you should be considering. Personally, I only use the bar for deadlifts, RDLs, and farmer's carries, and it does a decent enough job there.

Overall super mediocre. Knurling is so passive that it might as well not exist, build quality in general is alright but nothing special. I got it for 20 bucks from a lady getting rid of her ex-boyfriend's stuff and it's OK for that price. At full price I'd consider other options instead.

Cool piece of kit if you're going in with the correct expectations. If you want to use it for pressing movements, Turkish get-ups, or cleans, this is not the right tool for you, the weight plates will get in the way. If your goal is doing kettlebell swings and potentially going crazy heavy with them, this is the objectively cheapest and space-efficient way of doing that. You can even micro-load them! Could probably also be used for power stairs or duck walks, though I haven't tried that myself. Build quality is the usual Strength Shop fare - no frills, but rock solid. No complaints here.

This thing is awesome. As someone dealing with an extremely low ceiling, this really was my only option for a lat pulldown that wasn't some horrendous 150 Euro Amazon special. At the 450 Euros I paid for it, it's still extremely cheap for the build quality you're getting - everything feels rock solid and stable. The pulley action is buttery smooth, and the footprint the unit as a whole takes up is tiny compared to most lat pulldown machines. What's not to love? Well, two things actually. One: if you use the recommended adaptors to turn the weight pegs from one to two inch size, you can't slide 20 kg/45 lb plates smoothly on and off the pegs anymore - they get caught on the metal side supports of the machine. This can easily be fixed by putting a one inch block of wood under the weight lever arm before adding and removing plates, so it's not a huge deal. It still feels like a design oversight that's unbecoming of a German company. Two: because of the lever arm design, the resistance curve is uneven - easy in the beginning and harder the further the cable is pulled. I don't mind this, but somebody else might. The limited range of motion of the lever also means that you have to dial in the exact starting position well using a chain or daisy chains. Then again, you only have to figure all that out once. Overall, rock solid piece with some small drawbacks. For the price and the tiny footprint, I really can't complain though.