Yes, disposable ones, use seven times then abandon. You get them with your weekly shop.
Wheel hub bearings are 1/4". There are some that aren't, but 1/4" bearings are standard. A bike shop that doesn't stock them is not much of a bike shop, IMHO.There is no wheel hub bearing standard. It is a similar story to the spoke game above.
Have a look at the list of hub bearings available from Enduro Bearings (.com, I think) to get a feel for "standard". I bet there's 400 variations in there.
Wheel hub bearings are 1/4". There are some that aren't, but 1/4" bearings are standard. A bike shop that doesn't stock them is not much of a bike shop, IMHO.
The engineering on modern bikes is total crap, IMHO. Stick to vintage steel bikes which have proper ball bearings that you can easily adjust and strip down to regrease or replace. It's just a big con so they can charge you £££ for a new component where a handful of loose steel balls would do the same job at a fraction of the cost and probably last ten times longer as well.
The engineering on modern bikes is total crap, IMHO. Stick to vintage steel bikes which have proper ball bearings that you can easily adjust and strip down to regrease or replace. It's just a big con so they can charge you £££ for a new component where a handful of loose steel balls would do the same job at a fraction of the cost and probably last ten times longer as well.
That said I’d be nervous watching my boy hitting a 20’ gap jump 12’ under the wheels on a steel frame with ball bearings
For some it is not just about money. When we adopt your ways there will not be many jobs about. Out of interest does your employment depend on things being bought.
The old stuff must have been pretty well built otherwise they wouldn't have lasted so long and people wouldn't still be keeping them going.
I'm seeing more and more of the modern stuff with suspension and generally poor engineering dumped in skips these days, and less of the proper old-school bikes. Still plenty of the old stuff in regular use on the road though. It's almost like some riders are rejecting a generation of the more recent stuff and just sticking with their simple 25+ year old bikes that cost peanuts to maintain.
There was no shortage of employment when bikes, cars, and lots of other things were far simpler than they are now. Your argument that we all need to spend loads of money buying over-complicated badly designed crap we don't need on an ever-decreasing replacement cycle timeframe just doesn't hold water.