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Wow. CK bearings are not cheap. Aspire seem to be the best bet so I've ordered one from there, pity about the 10 - 20 days shipping time. I wondered where others source their bearings from or if they stick with CK?
Does anyone know the number of the large bearing should I source a non genuine replacement to tide me over in the meantime?
Ta
The bearings are custom made by CK, if you're in a hurry try, Bromley Bike.
How have you destroyed a rear hub bearing and which one is it?
I feel for you mate, but it sort of rams home the utter pointlessness of CK rear hubs. Three time the price of Hope and either you have to service them every six months or else pay through your japs eye for new bearings.
[i]I feel for you mate, but it sort of rams home the utter pointlessness of CK rear hubs.[/i]
Good job they last 3 times longer than the hope bearings! and sound so much bettera than the cheap tat 😉
^ Wot Rich sed 😉
They only last three times longer if you lavish tender loving upon them every six months or so. To do tghat properly, you need ridiculously expensive tools or pay a shop around £50 a time to do it.
So the total cost of ownership of a CK hub over say three years, will be around £650. You could largely replace a hope pro 2 hub in entirety every 18 months for the same money.
They only last three times longer if you lavish tender loving upon them every six months or so. To do tghat properly, you need ridiculously expensive tools or pay a shop around £50 a time to do it.So the total cost of ownership of a CK hub over say three years, will be around £650. You could largely replace a hope pro 2 hub in entirety every 18 months for the same money.
Bo**ox
[i]To do tghat properly, you need ridiculously expensive tools or pay a shop around £50 a time to do it.[/i]
I made sure there was somebody nearby with the tools!
So the total cost of ownership of a CK hub over say three years, will be around £650.
As the owner of 6 CK hubs + a few headsets and a CK toolkit I have to agree Total Bo**ox, the toolkit was around £80, about what I paid for a decent torque wrench.
Yup, 6 sets of CK wheels here, the oldest of which is 8 years old. They're serviced when they need it (about once per year) and have [u]NEVER[/u] needed [b][i]ANY[/i][/b] new bearings or parts at all for that matter.
My CK tool kit cost me £70 and it's possibly the nicest tool I own.
[edit] A full hub service takes about 10 mins.
I'm afraid it was my fault that I need a new bearing. Tried to be gentle extracting it but without the tool I was on to loser it appears. It's a ss rear hub on my number 1 (most used) bike and it's been through lots of shite, plenty of jet washing, thousands of ss miles all year round and (I'm sorry to say) not too much in the way of re lubrication so I only have myself to blame. I was having engagement problems every now and then and that's why I stripped it.
I have 3 sets of CK hubbed wheels and all my bikes except the roadie stuff has CK headsets; 10 in all! This is the first ever problem I've had with them...
Anyway, new bearing ordered from Aspire, just thought I'd see if I could pop a different bearing in there for the interim period while I'm waiting for the kosher one to arrive.