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On 3/22/2002 herbn
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yeah i thought the lucky ad made some sense,and the loose bearing thing is also true.Some of the best bike hubs (road) were campagnolo nouvo record,loose bearing.Keeping them well maintained is key,same with the skateboard bearings, the races and balls gotta be top rate though,technicly they still gotta be equal to whatever abec you're comparing them to.
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Really fast bearings
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On 3/22/2002
Duane
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Break out the Cadillacs. Open bearings of good quality have much less friction than any precision bearing, provided thay are clean and perfectly adjusted. So, those 1974 Cadillacs are really fast then ? Nope, the urethane sucks. Oh yeah, that's right, the quality of the urethane is 50 TIMES MORE IMPORTANT. Pay $10 for good bearings, delivered to your door in 2 days, get some Abec 11 wheels, and ride on. The best bearings I have ever had for quality and durability are Hoover NSK, 2 sets going strong at 20 years plus. Bearings are the biggest rip in this industry, this Oust thing just the latest example, the humble, good service of Pleasure Tool will get my business for some time to come. The BS meisters lose my respect very quickly.
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Expensive Bearings
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On 3/22/2002
Kaylee
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Why does a bearing have to be expensive to be fast? A bunch of locals were conned into using Swiss Ceramics (at $110 at set!) in the park here. I checked out one of their boards and spun a wheel, crunchy and slow, and the small hard wheels they had weren't helping. The open shield of a Swiss bearing, when exposed to the kind of dust NM sees, will turn a ceramic bearing to CRAP. Herbn, that Lucky abec thing makes some sense, as my PT abec 5's outspin the PT abec 7's by a longshot, and the 3's do seem durable. I ordered some Oust 7's today out of curiosity. I still think a slow bearing in a fast wheel will be faster than a fast bearing in a slow wheel, and that a clean greased sealed steel bearing will be faster than even a lightly dirty oiled shielded ceramic bearing.
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ABEC not= speed
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On 3/22/2002 Herbn
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I've seen ads(take that for what it's worth) for bearings by a company,thats probabely a lot bigger than OUST,that states that their abec 5's are fastest Abec 7's are smoother and longer rolling,abec 3's are more durable than either. The closer tolerances of 7's and a smoother polish would make them rattle less,and roll for a long time. The slight(relative) sloppiness in the 5's might make them faster, at least in a straight line,side loaded the 7's would probabely be faster.This is what i read into a ad for lucky bearings, i read between the lines,through the pictures, and when someone quotes a statistic chances are about 4 out of five 5:) that they're deceiving you by manipulating the numbers.
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On 3/22/2002 tom
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he trys getting you to buy with fancy s#@! bearing names like moc.
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On 3/22/2002 tom
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how can oust be that good really if there abec 7 at most no ceramic how can they be considered the best i have bones swiss ceramics and i do not think oust is even that good.if there so good it seems like they should eihther be ceramic or have a higher abec tolerance i know there good though if you are a cheap penny pincher but i do not see how carl can be right.If any one knows of good bearings that are expensive and roll tell me about them.by the way please dont give me s#@! about abec1 being as good as ceramic thats for the poor.hands down not for extreme penny pinchers what are the worlds longest spining skateboard bearings i mean they cant cost 29 bucks i once heard from a inline skater that bearings can be priced all the way up to 1000 bucks.seriosley guys do not buy from con man carl.
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On 3/21/2002 Carl
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The website for Oust Bearing is in the process of being completed in the near future. If anyone wants to order or
ask any questions about the four NEW MOC Series bearings
you can call 310-212-3000 and we will try to answer all your questions. The SRP of the MOC 5 Series bearings are
$19.95 and MOC 7 Speed $29.90. Oust bearings are available
and ready for shippment immediately. These are NOT ceramic.
I hope some questions have been answered. Check out the SSS
Oust team in SF this weekend.
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vapor bearings
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On 3/21/2002 cookie man
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yeah, don't forget Um Toc Toc.
he's a really nice dood.
sometimes i can't understand him but his bearing are sooper fast.
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On 3/21/2002
Chris Raezer
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Satisfied Customer from Seattle took the words right out of my mouth. Ed at Pleasure Tool does an OUTSTANDING job of taking care of his customers! I am very happy with his ABEC 7's and it would take one hell of an exceptional bearing to get me to switch. I'm not saying I wouldn't try Oust, but I'm sure not going to jump through hoops and run down dead ends to get them. People here are saying how great they are but can't give an answer to simple questions such as where they are and how much they cost.
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On 3/21/2002 Satisfied Customer from Seattle
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Bearings, no matter how much faster one manufacturer claims to be than the other guys, are not going to make THAT much of a difference. There are many other factors in skateboarding that quickly outweigh any supposed advantage one quality bearing will have over another quality bearing. However, what does make a HUGE difference is customer service and product availability. Excellent customer service (along with a proven quality product) is going to get my money every time.
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On 3/21/2002 66.190
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but they're not made in china and they're the fastest thing since
besides richie cunningham and potsie are riding them
maybe the fonz will show up wearing his BLACK LEATHER jacket
sheesh
didn't chuck D and flavor flav say, "don't believe the hype"?
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Pleasure Tools Bearings
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On 3/21/2002 J
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Pleasure Tools ABEC7
Man are these things fast!
Resistance is virtually non-existant.
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vapor bearings
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On 3/21/2002 cookie man
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Vapor bearings are THE fastest bearings around.
They are made in Outer Mongolia by yak herdsman that was tired of the electric shavers used to shave his yaks breaking.
Um Toc Toc, a local herder, talked to a metalsmith in East Timor about using yak bones. They are stronger,lighter than ceramic and don't chip. It turns out that when mixed with yak's milk as a 'speed cream' they run sooper fast with little viscosity.
Um Toc Toc took these bearing to Hong Kong where they were an immediate hit. They soon made larger bearing sizes and Hong Kong skaters were going off!
The rest is history.
Look for Vapor bearings and tell ALL your friends.
(And don't forget to post here about how fast they are.)
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On 3/21/2002
hugh r
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I took the time... talked to the bearing dad for about an hour... exchanged e-mail and website address... sent an e-mail to get all the info for ordering some sets... been nearly a month... no response back from oust... I don't usually go to that much trouble to spend $'s... haven't spent them yet... HR
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On 3/20/2002 herbn
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if you put a set of ousts in a brand new set of,let's say ABEC 11 flashbacks, and a set of powell swiss in another set,EXACTLY how much faster would they go?same rider, tell me this is to tough to do.
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On 3/20/2002 Jason
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herbn- Did you happen to take the time to call the # that Richy C posted for oust bearings?
Get back to us on that when ya do OK!
J
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On 3/20/2002 Herman
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I agree with david HOW MUCH... WHERE TO GET... REALLY,WhAT IS SO SPECIAL?
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On 3/20/2002 hc
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(don't usually bother to check this forum)
bearings are 1% of the overall resistence, from what i have heard.
from my bike book (hitech cycling), cartridge bearing (no seal) have 7x the resistence of cup and cone bearings. (running 20W oil)
bearing with grease have 7x the friction of bearings with oil.
Weren't the old wheels cups and cones?
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On 3/20/2002
david
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mg and other oust users:
while it does seem from reading hugh r and other people's posts, that OUST bearing do have some sort of technilogical improvment over normal 608 skate bearings, nobody has seemed to answer what I, and alot of other people want to know?
-price?
-availiblity?
pictures ?
-when is the website going to be up?
i trust you guys when you say OUST are the best beaings out there, but i still want to try some first to see for myself!
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boca bearings
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On 3/20/2002
Aaron
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Has anyone ever ran boca bearings? How are they?
Aaron
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enron stock
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On 3/20/2002 kenneth lay
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it's a good buy at the current price!
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On 3/20/2002
MG
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Look, OUST bearings flat out rip. They are significantly faster than standard bearings. If you don't beleive it, don't buy them. Then you'll always be slow. If you test them against other bearings, you'll see. I paid full price for mine. No one is paying me to say this. They are simply faster, period. If you want to be slow, be slow. If you want to go fast, try some OUST bearings. Chicken and Richy did us all a favor by telling us where to get good bearings.
If you don't beleive they're faster, fine. But you're wrong.
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On 3/20/2002 66.190
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i have no knowledge of oust bearings or the company that "manufactures" them however, i do have a basic understanding of the business world and i don't see why bearings "assembled" in the united states would be any different than other bearings already on the market (except that i would expect them to be priced higher)
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Not China
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On 3/19/2002 Chicken
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Oust bearings are made in the USA. Everything but the races are made on US soil. The races are made at a private facility owned and operated by the US manufacture.The bearings are assembled and inspected in the good ol USA. sorry but all bearings can't be made in China.
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not china
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On 3/19/2002 herbn
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:) :) he he, that's soooo funny, did you say USA no, did you say Swiss no, Germany no, Britian no, Italy no,,,,any one get the picture:) should i break out the almanac and guess all the third world countries that may have recently acquired bearing manufacturing capabilities?S0 much fun:)
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