An easy way to tell if your bearings are worn out.

[oldbobcat]

Cool thanks for the post. Very good to know. Lol a stethoscope I never thought about that.

I'll have to ask our shop manager to get us a few. But thanks, anyway, JSWin, for reviving a thread that hadn't been touched, thankfully, in seven years.

 

[CAMPYBOB]

A stethoscope? In a bike shop???

I stopped into one of our fine LBS today and they didn't even have bar end plugs. Well...they had 6 old Velox rubber plugs with the screw/expander on a yellowed cardboard backer from the 1970's...

Wowser...they were...older than this thread!

 

[Damien Lee]

That's interesting, one learns something new everyday. It takes years and years for the bearings to get worn out. I just take my bike to the local bike shop and get the bearing replaces. It's neither an expensive or time-consuming process so it's nothing that has really bothered me.

 

[ZXD22]

Thanks for the post! Helps a lot especially when you learning how to self maintain and monitor your bike.