I have a newish intense tracer 2 frame. It hasn’t done many rides.
Just re-routing some cables through the shock link so took this off to make things easier.

To my surprise the bearings are rough as anything. Extremely hard to turn by hand.
I was really expecting better, but seems they have used cheap nasty bearings.

Has anyone else experienced shite bearings on intense frames?

Yeah mine were made of cheese, but then i started using the grease gun and a lot less Fennicks and they were miles better.

I’m talking about the too bearing that don’t have grease ports.

Hope the lower linkage isn’t the same. I’ve got a grease gun from another old frame so will have to use that and pump those full on the intense.

Mine last roughly 6 months on the top links before they need replacing. I think with them being exposed to the elements on the reverse side doesn’t help. It’s only a five minute job to change all four though using the superstar bearing tool. The bottom bearings are more of a pain to change and now I’m not using the ones it came with but enduro max 7902 bearings they need changing more often for some reason.