Why Your Bike Will Roll Faster with Kogel Bearings

[Bike Hub Features]

Founded in 2014, every Kogel Bearings product is engineered and assembled in the USA, and are exclusively available in South Africa through ROAM Sports. All Kogel products use, only, the highest quality ceramic bearings and are all backed by Kogel’s industry leading warranty.

This 2-year “Guaranteed Performance” warranty, pending annual bearing service and general maintenance, is backed up by ROAM Sports in South Africa. The best-in-industry warranty, for ceramic bearing bike products, means that if a Kogel product fails in the first year ROAM Sports will send you a new unit. Upholding general maintenance, of your bearings, will extend this warranty for a second year. This warranty covers everything, including alloy race corrosion, the most common reason for BB failures.

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[Grass Muncher]

Haha, why would anyone in their right mind pay over R2000 for 2 jockey wheels that literally cost under a R100 to make. ???? 

 

[RobbyB]

Please make some for R100 and we'll try them out. Write a review and lets hear about your success story!!

[MudLark]

What's the "pending annual bearing service", thing all about? Manufacturer's website says the same, links to manual but the manual is silent on the point.

[babse]

So cool... until I checked website!? Yoh those bits are pricey

 

Goodluck with that! 

[BMXER]

My sram bb failed in less than a year, fitted a kogel bb. Runs great but can't say its any better than the stock sram bb. At the cost of the kogel I could have replaced the sram bb annually and still had change.

[Ispeed_V]

So they promote something and guide you towards the website and almost everything on the site is marked as Out Of Stock.

Not good marketing in MHO.

 

[Schnavel]

Isn't that the way the entire bike industry operates at the moment? ????

[Rocket-Boy]

Oh Ceramic bearing snake oil is still a thing?

I thought everyone had figured out that they only make a difference to heat dissipation at extremely high RPM and moved on with their lives? 

[love2fly]

My Sram BB still going strong after replacing bearings for the 3rd time. Cost something like R130 for a set at BMG.

[Gerhard765]

Frictional losses comes from a lot of places on a bicycle and drive train with the bb and jockey wheels probably having the lowest contribution. Perhaps for the elite where every 0.01% makes a difference, but not for me. Feels a bit to fitting hollow bolts on a bike...

 

2 kg of weight loss on a bike is extremely difficult and expense if possible. My boepens probably gives me 5 kg which I can save...

Edited September 20, 2021 by Gerhard765

[Bizkit031]

Smoking their socks with those prices.

[Rock Guy]

Makes sense that your bike will be faster with more expensive bearings…

Through my own empirical studies, I have come to learn that nothing travels faster than money leaving a bank account. Conservation of energy therefore dictates that if your money transfers its kinetic energy to the bearings being purchased, the bearings will gain speed.

Furthermore, because the money completely disappears after the purchase, special relativity also applies. The physical mass of the money is thus converted to speed, ergo, a larger sum of money will result in faster bearings.