Making front and rear wheels spin faster without ceramic bearings.

Robert 0046 said:
Ive heard of a lot of tricks but wich one are you using, wich one you trust?
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Robert, don't use any type of tricks in your bike. Do it right and avoid headaches in the future. here is a good company with great results. I use this ones in my 2017 blue busa and works great. .https://www.bocabearings.com/products/bearing-applications/motorcycle-wheel-bearings?ProductType=2&ItemMakes=SUZUKI
 
Fernando said:
Robert, don't use any type of tricks in your bike. Do it right and avoid headaches in the future. here is a good company with great results. I use this ones in my 2017 blue busa and works great. .https://www.bocabearings.com/products/bearing-applications/motorcycle-wheel-bearings?ProductType=2&ItemMakes=SUZUKI
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Hi my brother if i buy a set im going with World Wide Bearings.
 
Sooooo the ceramic rear bearing in my BST failed. After about 8miles. Granted those 8 miles were on a dyno and making pulls and I’m not even sure that was the contributing factor, but I’ll not do ceramic in a bike that I ride on the street. The benefit of less rolling resistance over durability or piece of mind just isn’t worth it. In a max effort race bike, in a controlled environment I could see the benefit but not on the street. Could it have been a bad bearing from the factory? Maybe.. but it just left a bad impression on me and I am not taking chances.
 
PeregrineKeith said:
Sooooo the ceramic rear bearing in my BST failed. After about 8miles. Granted those 8 miles were on a dyno and making pulls and I’m not even sure that was the contributing factor, but I’ll not do ceramic in a bike that I ride on the street. The benefit of less rolling resistance over durability or piece of mind just isn’t worth it. In a max effort race bike, in a controlled environment I could see the benefit but not on the street. Could it have been a bad bearing from the factory? Maybe.. but it just left a bad impression on me and I am not taking chances.
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Definately a bad bearing,
and that should be a factory replacement.
How bad is it?
Noise? Wheel wobble? Did it come apart?
 
A few people on here run them on their street bikes..

@c10 ran them on RJ with zero issues that he spoke of....and his bike was run pretty hard at times...
 
PeregrineKeith said:
Wheel wobble. Enough to make the abs sensor rub the ring. Brock’s taking their sweet time about getting it back to me. Not exactly happy…
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That sounds more like a wheel manufacturing defect that caused a bearing failure. Something is definitely not right, ceramic bearings don’t fail like that especially after 8-miles.
 
PeregrineKeith said:
Sooooo the ceramic rear bearing in my BST failed. After about 8miles. Granted those 8 miles were on a dyno and making pulls and I’m not even sure that was the contributing factor, but I’ll not do ceramic in a bike that I ride on the street. The benefit of less rolling resistance over durability or piece of mind just isn’t worth it. In a max effort race bike, in a controlled environment I could see the benefit but not on the street. Could it have been a bad bearing from the factory? Maybe.. but it just left a bad impression on me and I am not taking chances.
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OMG Which bike did that happen on the silver or white?
 
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