BETD fox needle roller bearings..any good?

hadn’t seen them before …. just wondered if they were worth the cash …any improvement on the standard bushes?

http://www.mountainbikecomponents.co.uk/items.asp?CategoryID=231&Name=Fox+Needle+Roller+Bearing

interesting
but I’ve given up all that bouncy bike nonsense now :o)

bump!

Depends, they’re an excellent engineering solution. The question is, do you have a problem with the cheap, light DU bish they come with?

I thought about them (briefly) when I last serviced my Meta but I went for the polymer bushes with the stainless hardware and the fitting tool, bish, bosh job done. I can’t see the needle bearings having any longevity tbh, especially on the bottom mount that’s usually exposed to all the crap off the back wheel.

Couldn’t tell you about their performance as mine are still sat in the garage.
The set I received would not fit my shock. I measured both the shock bore and bearing outside diameter and it turned out that there was an interference fit of 0.002″. I couldn’t tell you whether the shock or the bearing were out of tolerence as BETD never replied to my e-mails.