View Single Post
Old 11-29-08 | 08:04 AM
  #8  
HillRider
Senior Member
 
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 33,657
Likes: 1,119
From: Pittsburgh, PA

Bikes: '96 Litespeed Catalyst, '05 Litespeed Firenze, '06 Litespeed Tuscany, '20 Surly Midnight Special, All are 3x10. It is hilly around here!

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.
HillRider is offline  
Reply