I used to exclusively use Muir bearings simply because I wanted to support the shop as much as I can. Bearing performance is all pretty much the same, so my decision making at the time was that I wanted to support whichever brand I felt deserved my business the most. For other components like wheels and trucks, that obviously isn’t the case since the performance range is so wide. However for bearings, it really doesn’t matter at all…
This happened to @ethel with ceramic balls. Just with the amount of anecdotes in this thread of exploding ceramics is enough to make me not want to run them. The exception might be swiss ceramics.
Their bearing lines are all stainless steel,so no worries about rust.
They have a ceramic one as well, but only the balls are ceramic. I might buy a set of the ceramics to try it out, as i feel like it’s the best of both worlds, stainless body rings and ceramic balls.
both will break for sure, there may be some small difference while they are brand new, but after a some time they will become crap same as all of them do, IMO not worth it
I’d be really curious to find out if they’re breaking from the harsh forces of riding, or if it might be from something else, like say debris tat gets caught between the ball and the raceway causing the balls to get crushed.
The latter would still be a failure on a steel bearing, just not as catastrophic.
Interestingly, I still made it a few miles back home and wasn’t bucked-off. It was a gradual “something is wrong” then “something is definitely wrong” then “crunch, crunch, crunch” and a grinding noise when spinning and rough spots where it’d stop then go again.
Rush Titanium Bearings…Less than a phukkin a mile. Got them for my bro a few weeks ago, just installed them. Turned to dust, the inner titanium race cracked in at less 6 places.
It sounded like fire crackers going off when it died. Did not roll well to say the least, but wasn’t dangerous. The wheel didn’t sieze, just crazy vibrations and slowed down.
Edit: Toe side rear drive wheel on dual.motor build.
When I had a ceramic bearing explode I still made it home. CLEARLY something was drastically wrong though, and it rode like absolute shit. But it didn’t stop the board and chuck me into the street or anything.
