Replaced the years-old bearings on my Grizzly 852 trucks and it literally feels like I have a brand new board. They’re so frictionless in fact that the other day I had my Evo with me at a skate-park and I laid it down for a second, and when I turned around my board was gone—apparently the concrete slab had an ever-so-slight incline that I had never noticed before, and the bearings rolled so smooth (and my ancient 11-ply Evo was so heavy) that the board had silently just rolled off the slab. Was skeptical about the integrated spacers, but after only a day of riding noticed they ensured that the bearings seated nice and snug and perfectly aligned with the axle in my Hawgs wheels (something I’ve had an issue with in the past when using street skateboard bearings that didn’t come with spacers). Pro tip: Add (literally) a couple drops of bearing lubricant—I recommend Bones “Speed Cream” or Oust “Met-Ol,” or, if neither is available, sewing machine oil—to each bearing before pressing them into your wheels, use speed rings (preferably with the smoother, polished, rounded side facing the bearings if you’re OCD like me), and you’ll end up with seemingly frictionless bearings that will roll in absolute silence…and these are “just” the steel (not ceramic) Spaceballs!
