crosstrainingenduro.com How to check, replace and maintain motorbike wheel bearings! I am your typical idiot when it comes to motorbike maintenance. I didn't check my wheel bearings before a two day adventure ride. I was only two hours from home when the rear wheel began making horrible squealing noises. Keen on adventure riding in Australia? Check out our vids. I wanted to stop and organise transport but the other guys said I would make it home. Welcome to Cross Training Adventure, we are into all things dual sport and adventure on the east coast of Australia. Fat chance! Only 10 minutes later the bearing completely collapsed, I ruined the rear wheel hub, and I had to arrange transport anyway. Sigh. It's a great idea to carry spare bearings on a long ride. How to check motorbike wheel bearings. Put your motorbike on its stand and try wobbling the wheel. Any freeplay? If you like dual sport riding in Australia then you might like our adventure riding vids. This is a warning sign. How to repalce motorbike wheel bearings. Take your wheel off. Check out our reviews of various adventure bikes and dual sport bikes. A handy tip? If your wheel spacers are different sizes, mark them so you won't get them mixed up during reassembly. How to maintain motorbike wheel bearings. Now... use your finger to turn the bearing. If you feel any grittiness or binding you need to replace the wheel bearings. Use a screwdriver to remove the rubber seals. Remove the circlip. Make sure it doesn't hit you in the face. Use a 'drift punch', or an iron bar, to move the central spacer and gently tap out the wheel bearing from various directions to ensure easy removal. Always tap the outer part of the bearing, not the inside! If it's badly stuck, apply heat to enlarge the hub. Always buy Japanese wheel bearings if possible. Many aftermarket bearing kits like 'All Balls' are made in China. There are plenty of online comments about these being too expensive and failing too quickly. Do your research, find out your motorbike's bearing sizes, and buy them from a bearing specialist. You will get high quality Japanese bearings, often for half the price, of the aftermarket kits. It's very important to remove the rubber seal and ensure there is a good amount of grease. Even Japanese wheel bearings sometimes don't have much grease. Tap your new wheel bearings into place. Again, hammer from various directions to ensure it's not crooked in the hub. Rubber seals. These are cheap, it's always a good idea to use new ones. Put plenty of grease in the seals to keep dust and water away from your bearings. You can extend the lifetime of your wheel bearings easily. On adventure motorbikes, consider repacking the wheel bearings with grease when your tyres are 50% worn... possibly earlier if you have very durable tyres like Heidenau that last forever. Sometimes you can double or even triple the life of wheel bearings if you apply new grease. Never use pressure washers near your wheel bearings. Avoid riding through very deep water or mud if possible. And as mentioned, always use Japanese bearings and put grease inside your rubber seals. Any horror stories of wheel bearing failures? Any crap brands or handy tips? Let us know in the comments. And remember to check the pinned first comment of this video for any extra tips. This is one of our three channels, there's also a Cross Training Trials channel, and a Cross Training Enduro channel. All three are equally dodgy. We are the 27th most watched dirt channel in Uzbekistan. We have won the polished turd award five years in a row. And we have a world record 25 class action lawsuits for inaccurate information. We think the whole motorbike scene is getting too commercial. So called dual sport riding reviews are just glossy ads nowdays. All we are saying is there's also the budget option for adventure riding. And it won't hold you back. Why? We reckon it's 80% the rider and 20% the bike. So the Cross Training Adventure focus is just get out there and have fun on two wheels. Instead of obsessing over the latest blinged out Beemer, which tyres to fit or spending a fortune on your suspension or billet alloy gas cap. So most of our adventure riding vids will feature the much loved bush pig, the Suzuki DR650. What else? Cross Training Adventure actively avoids sponsorship. Instead of glowing dual sport reviews for kickbacks or free product, we will try to keep the buggers honest. So subscribe. Or don't subscribe to our Cross Training Adventure riding channel. The main thing is get out and ride while you can with dual sport riding or Adventure riding in Australia, Canada, Vietnam, Romania and beyond! So check out Cross Training Adventure.
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13 май 2023