Rogue Ohio Freedom Bar
The Ohio Cerakote Bar in a stars-and-stripes finish — 190,000 PSI, dual marks, no centre knurl.
Specs
| Bar weight | 20 kg |
|---|---|
| Bar length | 86.75 in |
| Diameter | 28.5 mm |
| Loadable sleeve length | 16.40 in |
| Bar use | Multipurpose |
| Knurl | Multi |
| Center knurl | False |
| Knurl mark | Dual |
| Shaft coating | Cerakote |
| Sleeve coating | Bright zinc |
| Sleeve assembly | Bushing |
| Tensile strength | 190,000 PSI |
| F Rating | F8-R |
| Colour | Red / white / blue |
| Origin | Made in the USA |
| Warranty | Lifetime |
These figures are copied from Rogue Fitness’s own published specs and were last checked on 2026-08-31. Manufacturers revise products without notice, and variants differ. Confirm anything your decision depends on with Rogue Fitness before you buy.
Choose this one if
- You want the Ohio Bar and would rather it did not look like every other bar
- You want Cerakote corrosion resistance on a do-everything bar
- You want no centre knurl at all on a 20 kg bar
The detail
Underneath the finish this is the Ohio Cerakote Bar, and the specification is the one that made the Ohio Bar the default recommendation for a decade: 28.5 mm shaft, 190,000 PSI, dual knurl marks, no centre knurl, bronze-class bushings, a 16.40-inch loadable sleeve, and Rogue's F8-R rating — the middle of their whip scale.
No centre knurl is the choice that defines it as a general-purpose bar. It helps a low-bar squat and it shreds a shirt on high-rep bench and scrapes the collarbone in a front rack. Rogue has picked comfort, which is right for a bar that will spend most of its life pressing and pulling.
Cerakote is the finish worth paying for in a garage. It resists corrosion and abrasion far better than zinc and does not wear through the way thin decorative chrome does. Note that only the shaft is Cerakote here — the sleeves are bright zinc, so those will patina first.
The multi knurl with dual marks means the bar is not committed to a discipline: IWF spacing for the Olympic lifts, IPF for the bench and squat, on one bar.
The finish is the entire difference from the standard Ohio Cerakote Bar, and it is a special-edition colourway rather than a different product. If the red-white-and-blue pattern appeals, you are paying for it; if not, the plain Cerakote version is the same bar.
Made in Columbus, Ohio, with a lifetime warranty — which on a bar is the term that matters, since a bent bar is a dead bar.