can the collective please recommend me a new bottom bracket as i finally killed mine on pook's ride yesterday. budget 30-40 gbp
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my bikes broke :(
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What sort of bb? ISIS, External bearing etc?
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sorry. forgot. external bearing will be on hollowtech 2 cranks
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XT always seems to be as good as anything for that kind of money
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dig deep for a chris king mate, you know you want to! I was going through them a rate of knots till I bought a king one last spring, now its happy days!
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King £80-odd at Winstanleys. Not a great deal more than Hope, and so much better.
If your budget won't stretch that far Hope are good, but they will still need new bearings every 6 months or so.
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Hope are good, but they will still need new bearings every 6 months or so
over 12 months on mine so far... (fingers crossed)
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my bikes broke
How many bikes?
Sorry. As a serious answer, what cups do you have right now? Might be worth sending them to Tim @ sideways and having some Phil Woods bearings fitted.
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Enduro bearings. Why throw the lot away when you only need bearings.
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Acros are good, had one in for 2+ years
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Woollly hat shop was knocking out Shimano's for 20quid.
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superstar components
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acros or phil wood are your best bet. I wouldn't bother with kings as who can be arsed with taking off your cranks to grease them, when you don't need too.
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Acros are very good.
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thefallguy - don't tempt me mate, would love to but not until i know what's happening with our lass
kiwijohn - can i use my existing casings with these?, ie pop the bearings out of the shell
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You don't need to take the cranks off with a CK bottom bracket. There is small grease port and you just inject clean grease into it. Takes no time at all.
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My Acros lasted 9 months before needing new bearings - replaced under warranty. Hope is the way to go.
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JamesP - Member
You don't need to take the cranks off with a CK bottom bracket. There is small grease port and you just inject clean grease into it.
You don't own a CK BB do you?
There isn't a grease port on them.
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XT if you not willing to buy either a CK or Pace that can be serviced in-situ.
I do like the Phil Woods replacement bearings but the price is too high now to make it worth while.
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sorry
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Singlespeed Stu- I do actually which is a bit embaressing. On my Turner flux. And I fitted it...BUT you're right...Not sure why I thought there was a grease port. There should be
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My LX is over two years old now, I think. I am a bit touchy about not getting it any more wet than just happens on a ride though - no jetwash, no hose wash, well… no wash basically! I reckon the exposed bearing design is vulnerable.
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Alright.
those ceramic BB's it says they fit on "outboard" ball bearings. does this mean Hollotech bottom brackets then?sorry this is with regards to the expensive/budget link....
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adey205, yep, that's the idea. My FSA bearings lasted 6 months, replaced with Enduro 2.5 years ago & still going strong.
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bigyinn's EXPENSIVE option.
cheap and good.
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What do you guys do to bottom brackets? I've got a 4 year old XT one (ridden most weekends) in the full suss - sounds a bit noisy now but it's still working. Not washed often to be fair.
I vote XT.Posted 2 years ago # -
Do you think this will be strong enufff Adey ? pmsl !
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pook - no worries mate, they were on the way out anyway
gravy - 2 words for you mate, and one of thems off
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gravy - 2 words for you mate, and one of thems off
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Arrrhhhhhhhhhhhhh where's all the love gone ?
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