Products We Can't Believe Are Still Made

[tintin40]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSxwwE7 ... gs=pl%2Cwn

 

[Duxuk]

Go on then. I'll be first to add my controversial 6th item.......Shimano hubs with cup and cone and ball bearings. My reasoning is that you can't just replace the cup without some skills and a source of new cups. A sealed bearing hub could last erm....forever?

 

[M-Power]

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Nice to know those ‘cheap’ Chinese carbon frame off cuts are still being dumped in the ocean. :facepalm:


Its all about cheap cheap cheap.....the race to the bottom and what killed most of the bike industry in the early 90s.

 

[TOMAS]

Go on then. I'll be first to add my controversial 6th item.......Shimano hubs with cup and cone and ball bearings. My reasoning is that you can't just replace the cup without some skills and a source of new cups. A sealed bearing hub could last erm....forever?

Shimano cup and cone/loose balls are still going due to them being FULLY serviceable, if you service them with fresh grease, as they should be then they'll last forever, more grease can be put in cup& cones and also I'd say stronger due to having larger balls then the cartridge bearings, which can't really be serviced unless you class carefully picking out the rubber seal (will always damage), soaking in degreaser and then trying to re-pack them with grease and your fingers as 'servicing'. I'd also say easier to service with simple cone spanners than needing presses for catridge jobbies.

Anyhow, if you hadn't guessed I'm pro loose balls haha! Until anyone can show me a set of wheels that spin better or longer than my 10 year old Dura-ace roadie hubs than I'll stay that way

 

[Baulz]

I agree with you Tomas, Shimano hubs last forever. The only issue I've ever had was wearing out a freehub which was a quick and cheap part to swap out.

 

[rva]

Go on then. I'll be first to add my controversial 6th item.......Shimano hubs with cup and cone and ball bearings. My reasoning is that you can't just replace the cup without some skills and a source of new cups. A sealed bearing hub could last erm....forever?

I've replaced just about a couple hundred bearings myself, so much about hubs on sealed bearings last forever... the new Syntace/Newmen hubs have so thin bearings with so tiny balls inside, that a slanted landing might just brake them. and after you push the bearings out for the third time from the same hubshell the 4th will be loose and will have play. can't fix that.

 

[madjh]

That is nothing: BB type: Withe Industries Cranks are still square Taper. And I love it. The square taper is more reliable than many other systems. I still use in modern bicycles, no noise, last near for ever ... it is still better than press fit for example.

 

[madjh]

The single chainring version for MTB ... amazing and square taper too. My next cranks.

 

[Baulz]

Those look great!