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We currently provide Ceramic Bearings for the Bicycle and Motorcycle industries

• Heat treated bearing steel bearings with Silicon Nitride (Si3N4) ceramic balls,
• Heat treated stainless steel bearings with Silicon Nitride (Si3N4) ceramic balls,
• Heat treated bearing steel races/rings with steel balls,
• Specialty - Fully sealed Full Ceramic Si3N4 bearings (races/rings, balls).
  

Advancements: Ceramics have advanced over the past several years. What didn't work before, works fantastic now. In the past, ceramics, such as Aluminum Oxide balls were used in bottom brackets and wheel bearings with no success. Aluminum Oxide Balls were too hard and brittle and bearings were unsealed. Road dirt and grit would get into the bearings, balls would crack and these bearings would fail.

Click here! to see what Kris Withington, Cervelo Pro Team Mechanic has to say about Pro Teams running Ceramic Bearings!

Today, Silicon Nitride ceramic is used. Si3N4 is robust and non-brittle. Bearings are now fully sealed and customers have put tens of thousands of miles on their bottom brackets and wheels with great success using TPS ceramic bearings.

For more bearing information, including a chart that shows watts saved, please click --> 'Bearing Info', or, if you have any other question about an application or a ceramic, please email or call and we will help answer your questions.

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