No bearing = no bearing problems
 

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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

No bearing = no bearing problems
 

On Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 6:05:37 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
https://bikerumor.com/2019/09/04/can...r-neo-bearing/

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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

There are bearings, but they're encased in magical plastic stuff. I was thinking someone came up with a bushing BB.

-- Jay Beattie.

No bearing = no bearing problems
 

jbeattie wrote:
:On Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 6:05:37 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
: https://bikerumor.com/2019/09/04/can...r-neo-bearing/
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: Andrew Muzi
: www.yellowjersey.org/
: Open every day since 1 April, 1971

:There are bearings, but they're encased in magical plastic stuff. I was thinking someone came up with a bushing BB.

They're not unheard of on crap kids toys.


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sig 118

No bearing = no bearing problems
 

David Scheidt wrote:

jbeattie wrote:

:There are bearings, but they're encased in magical plastic stuff. I was thinking someone came up with a bushing BB.

They're not unheard of on crap kids toys.

Plain bearings are also used in expensive pedals. I guess a plain bearing beats a rotten rumbly ball bearing in that instance.

No bearing = no bearing problems
 

On 05/09/2019 15:05, AMuzi wrote:
https://bikerumor.com/2019/09/04/can...r-neo-bearing/

Hellbender bottom bracket isn’t afraid of water

So the previous one was?

No bearing = no bearing problems
 

Chalo wrote:
:David Scheidt wrote:
:
: jbeattie wrote:
:
: :There are bearings, but they're encased in magical plastic stuff. I was thinking someone came up with a bushing BB.
:
: They're not unheard of on crap kids toys.

:Plain bearings are also used in expensive pedals. I guess a plain bearing beats a rotten rumbly ball bearing in that instance.

I have not noticed that quality and price are well correlated in the
pedal market.

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This is a randomly numbered sig.

No bearing = no bearing problems
 

David Scheidt wrote:

I have not noticed that quality and price are well correlated in the
pedal market.

That's true. However, it seems that cheap (sub-$30 retail) pedals use loose ball, notionally adjustable bearings, and only the more expensive pedals use plain bearings and/or cartridge bearings. There are of course both decent and awful pedals on both sides of that divide.

The noteworthy exception I've seen to the cheap pedals-cup & cone bearings correlation is horribly cheap Walmart/Bell pedals that use cast plastic bodies turning on smooth steel spindles with no discrete bearings at all.

No bearing = no bearing problems
 

On Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 12:11:04 PM UTC-7, Tosspot wrote:
On 05/09/2019 15:05, AMuzi wrote:
https://bikerumor.com/2019/09/04/can...r-neo-bearing/

Hellbender bottom bracket isn’t afraid of water

So the previous one was?

Apparently, Cane Creek wasn't selling BBs. They had a super-duper crank for which they designed a super-duper BB. Apparently people who owned the crank were just using water-fearing BBs manufactured by third-parties.

-- Jay Beattie.

No bearing = no bearing problems
 

On Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 10:31:48 AM UTC-7, Chalo wrote:
David Scheidt wrote:

jbeattie wrote:

:There are bearings, but they're encased in magical plastic stuff. I was thinking someone came up with a bushing BB.

They're not unheard of on crap kids toys.

Plain bearings are also used in expensive pedals. I guess a plain bearing beats a rotten rumbly ball bearing in that instance.

Chalo, What do you call those crank standards that fit the press-in bearings BBs? They are narrower than the 386.

No bearing = no bearing problems
 

Tom Kunich wrote:

Chalo, What do you call those crank standards that fit the
press-in bearings BBs? They are narrower than the 386.

There are too many Johnny-come-lately nonstandard BB standards to keep track of them all. When I run across one I can't identify (rarely, because my shop is mostly commuters and thrifty upcyclers), I consult a table like Park Tool's.

My last mystery solved was a State brand disc brake CX bike with an eccentric BB. When I pulled the thing out, I thought, "this doesn't look quite big enough to be a tandem eccentric shell" and also "f**k me-- a new superfluous GD BB standard".

Turns out it was a regular BMX/OPC type shell with a couple of big set screws welded on. That customer got a tubular CrMo crank which was cheaper and cooler than what had been in the original plan.