Originally Posted by
kenhill3
For most of us, ceramic bearings are a silly waste of money for negligible gain in performance/durability.
+1 Ceramic bearing in bicycle service are a triumph of marketing over common sense. At best they slightly reduce the friction in components that require almost negligable effort to operate. The wattage needed to overcome hub and bottom bracket resistance with decently adjusted steel bearings is so small that even if ceramic bearings reduced it to zero, you'd never notice.