Ceramic Bearings For Cervelo

Wheels mfg bbright adapters with enduro bearings don t seem like a good option compared to using a bottom bracket made specifically for the bbright standard.

Ceramic bearings for cervelo. Really like the bike and the rotor 3df crankset but the crank arms are too long for me. Cervelo c3 and c5 headset kit. Monday to saturday 11am 7pm. Just bought a cervelo r3 which comes stock with a rotor 3df crankset.

The result is a hybrid ceramic bearing that lasts longer than any steel bearing with spin performance no steel bearing. Ceramic bearings are often represented as the ultimate way to minimize rolling friction on your bike. Sram supports the bbright with their pressfit30 79 bottom bracket. Bbright is a bottom bracket standard developed by cervelo that uses pressfit30 bottom brackets where the bearings are housed in press in composite or aluminum cups which are in turn pressed into the frame.

The influx of ceramic bearing development into the bike industry sparked needed focus on reducing rolling friction in bearings. Set up as an open standard free for any frame maker to use until today bbright has only been widely adopted by cervelo cycles and has been used as the consistent bottom bracket standard across all their road and time trial frames since 2012. Upper bearing mh p03k 30 15 x 41 x 6 5 36 45 lower bearing mr019 40 x 51 8 x 7 5 36 45. However the reality of why some bearing designs are faster than others doesn t always align with what is presented.

Kogel bearings offers cervelo bbright ceramic bottom brackets based on a design developed by gerard vroomen during his years at cervelo cycles.