Who makes the cheapest decent one?

Thanks! 🙂

got one you can borrow if any use?

got it from betd

I went for a park tools in the end 4 years ago and still sweet 🙂

£17.58 – JE James

However the cheapest decent one is the ice toolz or equivalent one:

£5.95 @ merlin and is double sided

Ahh. I wasn’t very clear was I? 😳

I meant the thing to take the actual bearing out of the cups 🙂

Ralph, how much is the BETD one, can’t find it on the website?

Nope – no probs – I was wondering why you didn’t have one PP 🙂

Foxy, I have tools coming out of my ears at home, just not this one!

(I do like tools!)

Me too – love tools too 🙂

TBH I just use a hammer and screwdriver after warming the cups up a bit.

Remind me not to buy a bike of you bigyinn 😉

Nooooo
Just cut a washer(slightly smaller than bearing outer) in half, file the sharp edges down, insert one at a time behind the bearing and push out with two sockets – one through the bearing onto the washer and one bigger than the bearing outer braced on the BB body.

BETD used to do one, raceface were supposed to be releasing one, I was looking a while ago and couldn’t find one. Been trying to talk the guys in our workshop to make one for me, only need a threaded bar and some correctly shaped ali bits I think. No luck so far.

The enduro one from BETD is about £120.Bearing mf do one via madison thats about the same price.

Hmm. Good idea!

The enduro one from BETD is about £120

Ahh. I’ll try something else at that price!

I got one! Bought it off here and haven’t needed to use it yet.
I suspect you want your own rather than a borrow though..?

BETD, do make one its only £20, its not on their website, you have to call them. I got one.. great tool… note they give you one free if you get x5 sets of the enduro bearings…

give them a call… if not, post your cups down to me and I will swap the bearings out for ya. Worth getting the tool tho IMO

there is this one but it is uber expensive… circa $200

http://www.endurobearings.com/bicycle.html the brt-001 -edit- the one Rorschach posted

Tim Johnson at Sideways cycles used to have them but they weren’t cheap, £40 or £50 I think. I think that they were Phil Wood ones so obviously very good but explains the price.

http://www.sidewayscycles.co.uk/

Raceface do do one, I have one upstairs. It’s about £50, but I don’t know where it came from.

pricey but not quite $200

the phil woods is $127

out off stock on the raceface

£20 PP from betd

Ralph, cheers mate I’ll ring them I think 🙂

I’ve got the Enduro one. It’s lurve-ly

I just use a couple of sockets and an extension bar, knoing them out theres no problem doing it over the inner race, knocking them in just find a socket that presses on the outer or just put the bearign on a wooden worktop, cup over it, hammer them together and finish off with a drift/screwdriver.

i found “steaming” the cups helps with removing the top hats without breaking the very brittle plastic.

Racing-ralph, have you got any pics of the betd one?

its not a usual thing i photograph to be honest

😛 yer sorry, i’m just going to try and make my own on a lathe, just wanted to see the design!

its not a usual thing i photograph to be honest

foxyrider – Member

Remind me not to buy a bike of you bigyinn
Whats the problem, the old bearings are going in the bin, the new ones will get pressed in using a sash clamp (larger adjustable version of a G clamp) using sockets on the outer bearing race.

Aren’t BETD doing an offer when you can send your cups to them and they’ll replace the bearings with better ones free of charge?

If BETD are fitting enduro ones for you then I’d pass, mine were rotten, lasted less time than a Deore BB.

Basically, if it’s an angled bearing (ie the inner race can easily come out of the outer one, like an Acros Clockworx, then you might need a proper tool. But for Shimano, the correct tool is a hammer, no reason to get any more complicated- whacking the inner race will take the whole bearing out.

Thank you, although, you’ll incurr foxriders wrath also now!