York Barbell, a brand I remember from my youth as being the only name for weight training benches and equipment, more likely because of my youth and the hundreds of pages filled with York weight training products in my mums shopping catalogues. York had been a pointless company to deal with for many years due to their ties with Argos and the fact that Argos would be selling York products cheaper than trade accounts could buy for. However, more recently things have changed. York are now much more retailer friendly. York weights are of a particularly good quality suitable for home and commercial gym use, and prices have increased at a slower rate than many of their competitors while at the same time the quality of competitors products have declined. As such York should be rapidly approaching the days when they dominate UK strength training equipment sales once more (If they don't already)