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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: dannywhiteley on February 16, 2008, 09:05 AM

Title: Greasing up
Post by: dannywhiteley on February 16, 2008, 09:05 AM

When you build a show/display bike, do you bother with greasing up the BB and headset?  Seems like a lot of unecessary mess to me if it aint going to be ridden.

Also a silly question (but im still a novice).  Which way do the ball races sit in the BB?  Do the bearings rotate against the BB cup or the crank?

Title: Re: Greasing up
Post by: subversion on February 16, 2008, 01:06 PM

If you take a loose ball bearing race in the cage & place it flat side down on the table like this:

(http://www.asonbikes.com/imgs/bb-cups-6.jpg)

then put the BB cup over it, covering it - that is the correct fitment :daumenhoch:

Same for headsets too...

The bearings rotate against both the Cups & the Crank races.

Title: Re: Greasing up
Post by: MartyC on February 16, 2008, 07:37 PM

I usually grease them up but maybe that's just me  :-\

Title: Re: Greasing up
Post by: Dark Diggler on February 16, 2008, 10:04 PM

Grease it, even if it aint ridden, that way, when you missus pisses/pours something on it when you are not in, it wont rust the moving parts  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Greasing up
Post by: scooby74 on February 16, 2008, 11:07 PM

grease it up and ride it  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Greasing up
Post by: dannywhiteley on February 17, 2008, 09:54 AM

Cheers for the info, I had the ball races in correctly, just checking :daumenhoch:

And I will grease up afterall, I need to swap the cranks so will do it then.  Not going to be ridden far, but it will protect the parts for if it is ever ridden.