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Joebuell
Posted on Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 10:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Just got done with a quick 20 min ride. It was a very fast highway jaunt at 80+mph with maybe 5 min of 35mph side streets to my garage.

I felt the rear bearing with my fingers it it was freaking HOT. Hotter than the hottest water my kitchen sink can produce. Now the rear bearing never concerned me before untill I started watching the 1125 room, but is that normal? The front bearing was cool.

Could the heat (from whatever causing it)be cooking the grease out of these bearings or do they not work that way?


(2009 cr, 750 miles, never touched the rear wheel 'cept for tire air pressure)
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Bobby_fletcher
Posted on Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 10:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

You can always turn up the temperature on your hot water heater.
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Toona
Posted on Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 10:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I wouldn't worry about it, don't forget the exhaust dumps right on the rear wheel.
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Jules
Posted on Friday, July 02, 2010 - 06:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Were both sets of bearings about the same temperature?

I would GUESS that the rear wheel bearing have more to put up with than the front ones do but that's an interesting observation... I may take a quick look at mine (i.e. feel them) after the next run out.Unfortunately I don't have a reference point as I've never bothered with any of the other bikes I have owned..

I'm not overly worried but it doesn't hurt just to keep an eye on things. I don't even mind if I have to consider them a wear item and swap them out every year, I'd rather do that than have a set fail (not that i am suggesting they are prone to do that)
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Joebuell
Posted on Friday, July 02, 2010 - 09:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I'm too particularly worried about it. It's just something that I never even gave thought with my other bikes/buells untill I bought the 1125 and started hanging out on the 1125 board.

...\so now I drive around stariing at my volt meter and worrying about the rear bearing clipart{freak3}

But the temp did have me wondering. I have a hard time thinking that the exhaust could heat up the rear wheel like that. Odd.

The front bearing was cool. Front tire was hot (as expected) but the bearing surface was cool. This is what got me thinking about the rear.
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Jjk
Posted on Friday, July 02, 2010 - 11:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Has anyone tried ceramic wheel bearings? I've heard nothing but good things about them for Japanese bikes.
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