Originally Posted by
awesomejack
I'm off to the shop to get wrenches now.
Any preferred grease? I live in a small town and the one shop here has rather bad mark up... will any grease from the hardware store be adaquate? I'm in college and would rather not spend more money, and just keep the bearings as is...
Go to an automotive-shop, or boating-shop, and look for marine-grease. It's used for greasing the wheel-bearings on boat-trailers that get dunked in water repeatedly. Or just suck it up and buy one tube of whatever brand grease the bike-shop offers.