Today I wanted to start a post about the latest "high tech" topic to hit the industry in quite a while....ceramic bearings, but I'm up against the wall to get jobs done. Hey, I'm not complaining about 50+ degree sunny days during the first week of January in Northeast Ohio!!! Like I said before, bikes first, then blogging. Once I get out from under the work that I have, we'll discuss the ceramic bearing thing. I think that you'll find it interesting. I'm also considering Podcasting... Thanks for checking in! -John
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What i find interesting about the ceramic bearing is how none of the suppliers or media discuss the various qualities of ceramic bearings.
There is a quality difference. You can pay for crappy ceramic bearings that have NO performance inprovement. Look online and can find ceramic bearings from $20 to $300. I doubt that there are a lot of producers of bike specific designs so people pay $200 for a bearing set that costs the buy marketing it as "ceramic" $30.
To my knowledge ceramic bearings are also more brittle and thus for wheel/hub bearings very vunerable to high impact damage.
Posted by: Steve Wagner | March 15, 2007 at 10:41 PM