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Fast Bearings
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On 10/22/1999
Keith Fellmy
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Landluge.com is the Subterfuge Luge Store. I buy all my stuff from them. Tim is very friendly and will help in anyway he can. He's a bit behind right now as he is nursing some luge injuries. Highly recommended by me-the safety man.
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Genarics!
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On 10/22/1999 eggman
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I still say that the Genaric 608 motor bearings will beat any other. Not only beat them, but blow them away. I am still waiting for someone else to back me up on this. Does ANYBODY ride these?
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re:bud
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On 10/22/1999 mule
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I don't like to disapoint ya, but as long as you use wd-40
the 'fastest' bearings will never be yours. Bearings need
lube, not solvent, to operate at their best.
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Fast bearings
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On 10/22/1999 Justin c.
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www.landluge.com----order yourself some swiss bones or Ninja ABEC 3's, 5's, 7's, or if you have a high budget order yourself some Ninja Ceramix. These are all extremely well made bearings and are fast for a long time.
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bearing cleaning Q's
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On 10/22/1999 bakerhead
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ah, young newbie boarder, the answers you seek are simple.
We do these things to our beloved bearings to make them go faster. When boiling you take the bearings out of the wheels to leave a bigger surface area exposed.
Axels are wiped clean using absorbant paper or scrubbed with a toothbrush.
However use this information wisely and with a pinch of salt or you can only come a cropper.
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Bearings, fastest?
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On 10/21/1999
Bud
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I would like to know what the fastest bearings would be, not what methods to use on my bearings, just the straight up VERY fastest bearings are, thanx. (oh yeah, I like to use straight WD-40 on my bearings before a fat hill because I find that by the time I get to the bottom my bearings are totally clean because all the dirt that comes off in the luce flys off the bearing from the spin)
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Soaking/boiling bearings
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On 10/21/1999 Newbie boarder
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Maybe I'm not fully understanding, but do you guys soak your wheels and bearings every night? do you leave the bearings in the wheels when you soak/boil them?
What about the axel...clean and lube that as well?
Sorry for being a moron...just starting in the sport.
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Bearings
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On 10/20/1999 Thomas C. Montgomery
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I trided dans way and i gotta say that I flew down the hills. It is not just feeling faster because i was racing my friend who is better tahn me and I killed him. I did not boil the water put soap in or relube try it and tell me what you think. I am going to try to heat up my bearings tommorow
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On 10/19/1999 Herbn
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Not that I care about your rusty bearings , but soapy water might not make things rust just make sure to lube afterwards I'd go with duralube ,that soapbox derby guy sounded like he knew what he was talking about. Soapbox races are done on very similar equipment and the difference between winning and losing is being very precise about everything in their constuction like alignment and bearing prep.
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cleaning
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On 10/19/1999 extcad
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boil your bearings in water to remove excess dirt(don't worry about rust, the boiling process stops waters rusting potential). Simply re-lube afterwards.
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Kerosine
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On 10/18/1999
Chris
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I don't know whether this is true or not, but a friend, who used to street luge, told me that kerosine can be used as a lube, but it will only work for about two runs down a hill. Apparently, kerosine has a very thin oil in it, and when the solvent evaporates away it leaves a very fast, but also very short lived lubricant. Never tried it myself, but it probably couldn't hurt. Somebody mentioning kerosine reminded me. Later,
Chris
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Bearing Care # 2
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On 10/18/1999 Jason
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Kerosene works a treat for cleaning your bearings.
Just pop the inside plastic shield off, half submerge the bearing in a little jar of Kero and spin them.
All the grit and dirt washes out in about 30 seconds. The residual Kero evaporates in about 10 minutes.
A couple of drops of speed cream and your bearings are going just as fast as new again.
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bearing care
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On 10/18/1999 Matt
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I just bought new bearings. I forget the name but they came in a pill bottle. They have red sheilds with rubber shields on the inside. The directions said clean with wd-40 and then spray a few drops of triflow teflon spray. So wd-40 shouldn't just be used as lube, it should be used to clean.
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Alternative advise on bearings
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On 10/18/1999 Justin C.
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If you soak your bearings in water, you will ruin them over time because of flash rust( a very thin layer of rust that you can't even see). The illusion that your bearings are faster after you soak them in water, is that water is a very low viscosity and allows the bearings to SPIN alot faster. But offers no pretection because it doesn't really minamize friction. If you wan't fast yet well protected bearng performance, get some DuroLube spray, it is a then viscosity oil but it breaks down 5x less than WD-40 so you don't have to oil your bearings every week, just every 5 weeks. Also, about the heat thing; bearings do perform better when warm because the temperature thins the oil in the bearings which makes them spin more freely. But I wouldn't take a candle to the bearings though, just keep your board upside down in the sun before a race (black sheild bearings absorb more heat). I've raced in the All American Soap Box Derby for 3 years in a row and placed, in SoapBox racing, avery thing comes into play, including the info which I just explained. And in Soap Box racing, 1st and 2nd place sometimes comes down to .001 sec. !!!
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Alternative advise on bearings
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On 10/18/1999 Justin C.
wrote in from
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If you soak your bearings in water, you will ruin them over time because of flash rust( a very thin layer of rust that you can't even see). The illusion that your bearings are faster after you soak them in water, is that water is a very low viscosity and allows the bearings to SPIN alot faster. But offers no pretection because it doesn't really minamize friction. If you wan't fast yet well protected bearng performance, get some DuroLube spray, it is a then viscosity oil but it breaks down 5x less than WD-40 so you don't have to oil your bearings every week, just every 5 weeks. Also, about the heat thing; bearings do perform better when warm because the temperature thins the oil in the bearings which makes them spin more freely. But I wouldn't take a candle to the bearings though, just keep your board upside down in the sun before a race (black sheild bearings absorb more heat). I've raced in the All American Soap Box Derby for 3 years in a row and placed, in SoapBox racing, avery thing comes into play, including the info which I just explained. And in Soap Box racing, 1st and 2nd place sometimes comes down to .001 sec. !!!
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bones
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On 10/16/1999 Eric
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Brian it really does work if u soak your bearings i dont knoew if the heat thing works i will try it and tell u
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bones, else?
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On 10/15/1999
brian
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does this soaking in water really help? i want some input from someone other thatn dan or craig. wouldn't this work on other bearings as well? about the candle thing, heat is bad for bearings right?
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tbones
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On 10/15/1999
dan-k
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you just made craig go back to some of his old habbits good job. IT is really true I soak my wheels every night and my top speed is 50 mph. That is with a radar gun. before i tried soaking my bearings i went like 30 mph and craig is my room mate that is why we have the same number
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tbones
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On 10/15/1999
dan-k
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you just made craig go back to some of his old habbits good job. IT is really true I soak my wheels every night and my top speed is 50 mph. That is with a radar gun. before i tried soaking my bearings i went like 30 mph
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bones
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On 10/15/1999 craig
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I am serious u will not know until you try it u fly. It is 100% true and i have not had any thing to drink for 6 weeks. I used to be alcaholic and I have got to be honest and say that really hurt my feelings. I may go have a drink because i am so depressed thanks alot
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Dan K/Craig
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On 10/14/1999 Jason
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Same I.P. Address, although I think Craig had had less to drink.
Who are you Guys trying to wind up ??? J.
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BBS rims
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On 10/14/1999 Herbn
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What 16 and 17 inch rims do for cars has very little to do with wheel size or bearings in skateboards apples and asparagus .Less sidewall flex,more room for bigger brakes,and least conclusively when you get +1 or +2 rims for your car,you get lower profile tires to keep the overall height the same,what does this have to do with skatboards, this feel like a non-sequitor.
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bones
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On 10/14/1999 craig
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dank is right you do go faster if you soak your bones in water atleast once a week. also if you heat up your bearings with a candle before you skate you will fly
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bones
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On 10/14/1999
dan-k
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they roll faster and smooter if you soak them in wate over night at least once a night. Try it u do not ever need to oil again
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MINIS
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On 10/14/1999
TIKIMAN
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Renee...i hear ya, but, i think your wrapping concepts of gravity, momentum & acceleration up in terms which should relate to friction, rotation, etc.....in any event i'll wait to be proven wrong, but, if you take a moment to look at what auto wheel Mfg,'rs are doing you'll see more & more 16 & 17 inch rims being employed more frequently....rolling/resistance/distance are the goals here. personally, i'd rather see a trend in the direction of larger, but as a mfg'r. i don't have to tell you about re-tooling costs....so...how do you market more bearings???? figure out a way to fit them in the universally employed hub diameter & use a 2 cent spacer, that's how! ( by the way, i also own several propertys in the industry, among them is SURFNSK8.COM, its for sale for $100K.
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