Of all the components that can affect the character of a bike wheels arguably have the best ability to make or break the way a bike rides.
Ceramic bicycle rims.
Been to the bike shop and spun the wheels to see which feels the fastest.
We ve all done it.
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They ceramic bearings do run with less friction which offers a significant advantage in industrial applications running at 20 000 rpm.
In most bearings the grease is the main source of friction.
Cracking a race could stop a wheel from turning instantly and no good comes of wheels permanently locking up on a bicycle.
The hubs can be optioned with ceramic kogel bearings.
Full ceramic wheel bearings would be an amazing way to reduce friction in hubs.
After all since there are no chance for parts to oxidize there is also no need for grease.
Inevitably discussion ensues as to which bearings the wheels have and whether they are ceramic or not.
We put 15 popular rim brake and disc brake wheelsets head to head.
The problem here is that wheels take hard impacts from potholes.
Zipp wheels are built with total system efficiency in mind.
A tiny percentage reduction in friction here can equate to a worthwhile power saving but when you re only turning at 300 rpm as you do on a bicycle a small percentage increase in efficiency will make a negligible change to your power output.
Ceramic bicycle wheel bearings kogel bearings offers ceramic wheel bearings for any wheelset.
So for safety reasons ceramic wheel bearings on bicycles are in fact almost always hybrid design meaning ceramic balls on steel races.
To make things easy we have made a flat fee pricing for a set of four front and rear hub but without freehub or six a complete wheelset including the freehub.