loose ball steering bearings
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 6:44 pm
firstly has anyone done this conversion and if so is it worth the faff? secondly what size are the bearings and how many do you need?
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Re: loose ball steering bearings
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:00 pm
I do this with mine and it makes the steering/turning smoother. I use the ball bearings out of the steering race but I buy an extra one so that I have more ball bearings.
Re: loose ball steering bearings
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:07 pm
+1vespanic wrote:I do this with mine and it makes the steering/turning smoother. I use the ball bearings out of the steering race but I buy an extra one so that I have more ball bearings.
Re: loose ball steering bearings
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 1:41 am
The top bearing are 1/8 and bottom are 1/4. I buy mine from a push bike shop, costs about £4 to do a scooter.
Re: loose ball steering bearings
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:56 am
And if you buy the bearings from a cycle shop (good one blue) you don't get hit with LAT as some one said on here a while ago.
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Re: loose ball steering bearings
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 2:05 pm
I prefer to use metric sizes as that's what was in there originally.blue wrote:The top bearing are 1/8 and bottom are 1/4. I buy mine from a push bike shop, costs about £4 to do a scooter.
Re: loose ball steering bearings
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 2:21 pm
3mm and 6mm?DigDug wrote:
I prefer to use metric sizes as that's what was in there originally.