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What’s Better?! Loose OR Cartridge Bearings? 🤺
What’s Better?! Loose OR Cartridge Bearings? 🤺
#Whats #Loose #Cartridge #Bearings
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Have you ever run cup and cone bearings before? Modern-day mountain bikes mostly all come with press-fit cartridge bearings, but why are we using them when loose bearings could be better? 🤨 Here’s Doddy to explain more!
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Both have their Pros & Cons. No idea how much difference it is measuring W or resistance. Problem with Cup nCone is that when they break, wich they eventually do, you have to get a new hub.
In case anyone needs instructions on how to change cartridge bearings, I just released a video this morning on how to do it:
https://youtu.be/bYY8azeNBbY?si=28rDA8cp6GELyjC5
I love how you guys always edit these so that you'd never read the question first go, does it force people to replay it a couple times so you get more plays or what?
Hi Doddie! Sorry to hear you are leaving. You have left a great archive of clips to help me through in the future too. Thanks for your work, I will still see you in my workshop. Jen 😊
They are much easier and cheaper to maintain but indeed very few people maintain them, in which case you go to the point where the races are shot and then the whole hub is trash.
Same. I've got an old set of xt hubs which are cup and cone. They are still super smooth as when I bought them back in the 90s. The trick was adjusting them correctly which was fiddly but if you worked it out right you could get them perfect smooth after servicing them.
My new £7500 E bike has cup and cone bearings in the rear hub, I know because they came loose during the first ride and I had to tighten the cones when I got home! I was surprised to say the least.
Got XT hubs that have ran amazingly for years. Cup and cone fine in my world
I always found cone bearings in wheel hubs crunchy, very awkward to adjust and high maintenance. Perhaps not so bad in the headsets? 🤔
Cup-and-cone bearings will result in a pitted hub eventually, and there is nothing to fix that.
Indeed I do use cup and cone bearings.
I use a lithium grease spray on them, 3-4 times a year.
You just have to know how to adjust the axel correctly, especially in the rear wheel.