Originally Posted by v1nce
Thanks for that, makes sense.
But you are not saying that all bearings on a bike will easily last 100.000 miles are you?
In this sense -unless you buy the highest grade/intense quality/hyper expensive headset, pedas, BB and hubs it does seem to make a lot of sense to add a real cheap fitting and then be able to extend the life of cheap but servicable components 5 tot 30 times, especially as the greasing seems to be a very small job.
What do you think?
What I think? Instead of fixing a problem caused by buying cheapass bearings, why not just buy the good ones to begin with. It's a whopping $3 for a bag of 25 highest quality grade 25 bearings. It costs more for the solution than to outright get the good stuff to begin with.
And seriously if you can't afford like $4 for bearings when they start to go, you shouldn't be riding a bike that costs more than $4. Or you can just get sealed cartridge bearings and be down with it.
This is a solution in search of a problem.