byrdman76 wrote:Paul - the superblends in the cases look like one is facing one direction and one is facing the other. Is this correct? The reason I ask is that I have never installed these and I installed mine both with the smooth side up with the inner race facing the crank. This is the way that the races came out of the bearings so I installed them into the cases accordingly.

byrdman76 wrote:Paul - the superblends in the cases look like one is facing one direction and one is facing the other. Is this correct? The reason I ask is that I have never installed these and I installed mine both with the smooth side up with the inner race facing the crank. This is the way that the races came out of the bearings so I installed them into the cases accordingly. Do I need to change mine to look exactly like yours?

grandpaul wrote:Remember that what you want on installation is for the loose inner race lips to fit up to the crank, so the crank can be removed without struggling. Simply use a bearing splitter to remove them from the crank in the future.

I have pulled apart cases where one or both bearings were installed backwards and it was a major pain to free the crank from the cases after splitting them (also with much effort)

grandpaul wrote:I wasn't paying attention, but these have markings on both sides of the inner and outer, and I lost track. Still mounted them up with the lipped inner races mated to the crank cheeks, and the loose lips to the outside. I don't believe it will be an issue in operation at all.

sns wrote:yikes. believing or knowing, which would you trust at 100+mph?

sns wrote:Are there any other proprietors /dealers/manufactures/mechanics in this forum posting their projects non-stop? The bike contest that has little to do with this forum at best, the link to this bike contest and more importantly the link to one's business, does that not constitute advertising?

Specifically, is this form of indirect advertising approved by site owner Jerry Doe?


Please bear in mind that if an individual without ulterior business motives and links in his or her signature were posting these projects, I would not be compelled to express my distaste here. Quite the contrary.

If this site is paid for by certain members that run their indirect business adverts via "project" threads, then that is another story.

sns wrote:Perhaps Jerry has not seen this type of behavior from another point of view. Things do change. Sometimes for the worse. Sometimes for the better. Just because this behavior has gone on a long time don't make it right.


Perhaps Jerry will perceive this behavior in another light. And perhaps this thread will too go the way of the other suspect thread, which did take all of 3 pages to be justly sent to oblivion.

More importantly, does Jerry stand by this proprietor and his business, whether as paying forum sponsor or indirect advertiser? I have not see this proprietor in Jerry's Links section nor have I seen express advertising here in any manner. I personally know several professional mechanics who frequent and contribute to this site and they have never displayed this type of behavior.