How To Service Hub Bearings | More Efficiency & a Smoother Ride!

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Servicing the hubs on your bike is important if your wheels feel rough when you spin them and it will not only help increase efficiency but also stop any premature wear.
Usually the problem will be caused by wear in your bearings or by the ingress of water and grime. Wheel bearings also do eventually wear out over time which will introduce play to the hub, allowing the wheel to rock side to side on its axle.
There are two types of bearings commonly seen in hubs - sealed (cartridge) bearings and non-sealed (cup and cone, or loose) bearings. Regular servicing can extend their life, although they will eventually wear out to the point that they need to be replaced.
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3 авг 2014

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@dustsmoke Год назад

Its really weird how the bicycle industry is still using these archaic 100+ year old cone bearings on hubs while the rest of the world has long moved on to safer and longer lasting things like sealed cartridge bearings. I just checked my hubs and the cone bearings are almost completely gone at 10 months and 650 miles. Meanwhile, I have a 54 and 51 year old motorcycle using cartridge bearings with tens of thousands of miles on them. One of them spent a few decades out in the elements and it was legitimately destroyed by kids jumping it and throwing it around in the mud about 30 years ago. I changed those bearings after 50 years when I rebuilt it but honestly they would have been good to go for 50 more years if I repacked them with grease. The other one lived in a barn but its bearings are still just fine and within spec.

@martonk1555 3 года назад

With a quick release like this, you should set up a very little play outside of the bike, and check there is no play with wheels in and tight quick release. Otherwise the bearings will be too tight.

@AndrewBlack-ix7js

This would be a really useful video if it were not for the obnoxious music. It’s not so useful if you have to mute the soundtrack to save your sanity.

@Hootyhoo-jq9vq 4 года назад

When he mixed bearings from drive side with non drive side I bailed.

@pgpagaia 28 дней назад

Very well explained. Interesting. But there is no way I am doing this. To much work and inconvenience for those of us who dont have a workshop.

@Durwood71 Год назад

Makes it look so easy, but I know that once I attempt it myself, I'm going to find one "gotcha" after another.

@clashwithmoi8926 Год назад

I got a bike tune up done today which included wheel bearing maintenance. My god, the bike feels like the day I bought it 6 years ago

@SmellyT0fu 10 лет назад

Great instructions but please stop taking video shots of James at another angle. It's not cute nor cinematically interesting.

@amermeleitor 6 лет назад

No!! The degreaser will reach the internal bearing of the freehub if you do it like the video.

@ajkauly3682 Год назад

The single trickiest part of procedure is glanced over quickly. The final adjustment and final locking needs 3 wrenches or two wrenches and vise. This is a very very precise adjustment and locking. Often to be done a couple times to get it just right. Waaaay too many young mechanics are doing everything else right, but Neglecting the correct locking. this leads to a great deal of hubs/axle premature wear/issues, often taking back the advantages of rebuilding the hub.

@TivonSanders 2 года назад

Don't know why, but this video is the only one that perfectly explained to me how to adjust hub bearings. Excellent video. Thumbs up Mate! Cheers!

@awaedin 8 лет назад

superb series of bike maintenance videos, just used the spoke replacement one and it made the job easy.

@Ewan.f15 10 лет назад

Your workshop is soo cool!

@mojjomusic_AU Год назад

Excellent vid and somehow relaxing

@rafaelparedes1937 5 лет назад

great video. thanks!

@tamasbertalan8464 5 лет назад

thx helped a lot

@johnsuarez1404 2 года назад

I was going to try to do it myself but it's more than I anticipated. I'll wait until I have the proper tools

@ZYCLINGTK 10 лет назад

Gr8 vid!

@ajkauly3682 2 года назад

also in a hollow axle, a very slight amount of play is ok, because the final adjustment mon the balls is your how much you clamp down with the QR!!! a perfect adjustment on the hub before install will result in a slightl tight adjustment after clamping. Though some settling could occur , making it looser, it may not occurr too!!!