Brilliant video which gave me the confidence to do the bearings myself. Bit of a cost to get all the tools but as my wife rides a rail as well as two of mates it made sense. keep up the good work :-)

Great video, thank you for showing all steps

Really enjoy your videos Dave, I've learnt so much. You are an excellent teacher. 👏

Great video Dave. Always interested to learn more about my bike and required maintenance

Always the best videos!!!

You make great videos on interesting topics. They are very clear and easy to follow, keep it up.

Thanks for taking my call today Dave with regard to this procedure and sourcing parts - Really appreciated - keep up the good work! 🙂

Excellent video - proper job

Thanks for the info! I just purchased a Rail last week. This is great info to have.

Great video Dave. Could listen to you talking bike all day mate. Luv the Peter Kaye backing track 😂😂

Awesome video. I have a 2022 Trek Rail watching your videos when I got the bike from my lbs I did my due diligence and regreased and torqued to spec all bolts and bearings. As part of my routing especially riding in winter I wash and dry my bike after rides (when i can) and I do a bolt check the night before rides. This might shock some ...but my bike is pretty silent. I have two buddies that have the Rail and theirs creek and just loud in general. Well maintain bike saves you headache and money in the long run. I love the videos keep it up. Have a great day!

Great video Dave! My Rail is starting to creak after a year. I'll be sure to get the bearings replaced ASAP.

Good vid Dave, see you Saturday for my bespoke wheels 🥳

Great tutorial video again, Dave, much appreciated, thank you. I’m not a Trek Rail owner (Whyte 150 s), but I’m sure the methodologies used are pretty similar as and when the time for bearing replacement arrives. Best, from Grampian, Scotland 👍🏻👍🏻

Cheers Dave. Just had a look at my bearings after 1500km - main chainstay bearings were crunchy but still rotating, but the shaft was a mess and the bearing races were rusty. All other bearings were pretty good. Flushed and repacked.

Great Video. Thanks

Thank you so much for these videos. I'm an engineer by trade and love to do my own maintenance. Trying to figure these bikes out by yourself can be frustrating and getting any help can be even more frustrating. Going to buy some new tools to add to the collection and this maintenance will be added to my repertoire. Thanks again Cheers. 🎉

Great stuff cheers lad!

Great video. The rocker arm is titanium in all Rails.

After a 40k ride on my Habit Neo today, the creaking is still very annoying, managed to rule out the crank, seat post and pedals as root cause. Can feel the creaking when holding the suspension pivots and then found the noise is prob due to twisting and when I lean the bike a bit left and right it creaks like mad. So gonna put it in for service in the coming weeks to BikeTech Küttel in Aarau, near where I live. Great video, I’m just not confident enough to try myself…and maybe don’t have all the tools! Now I need to try and source s bearing kit!

Great tuitorial Dave, your presentation method is very clear and easy to understand, can you tell me where to buy one of those chain ring removal tools you use at 4.08 min please?

Same bearing like on Trek Fuel Ex for 2020-2022. Probably on Slash aswell One more important note, DONT torque UDH to 25NM it will snap. Max 10-12NM. I destroyed mine with torque on 25NM, and had problem to remove it. I used little saw for metal to cut it from inside-out. Very stresfull... Great video!

Great video Dave, nicely explained. I've made a mud flap to cover the main pivot bearings and everything is torque checked every month or so. All seems smooth at the moment. Had the bike about 12 months. Do you think it needs to be done and roughly how much would it cost at a shop including good bearings, thanks

That's a great and well presented video Dave. What bearing puller kit do you use? Can you supply them. Thanks Jas

Previuosly replaced all the bearings on my wife's bike, but without the specialized removal/press tools, and yes I scratched the paint. Learned a lot. Can you list the removal/press tools used along with tool for the lockring on the chainring. Mine does not have the bolt to lock it place during removal. The locking is all buggered up as well. Thanks.

Thanks for the tips Dave. I had all the bearings replaced by the LBS within 8 months of purchase. Too much creaking. Better bearings were likely installed at that time because there’s no creaking after a year +. I’m now ready for another bearing replacement (have a bearing kit) but I don’t have all the bearing press/puller…yet. Any recommendations for a bearing tool kit? I mostly work on Trek Rails for myself and friends. Cheers.

Hi Dave really enjoying watching your vids mate and you have a good, calm way of explaining things, can I ask in this vid what bearing extraction tool you are using pls. the one you say is invaluable, it looks like Union but may be wrong, does it come with various being diameters, on another don't shoot me but back in the late 90s did you work at Halfords Bradford?

Dave thanks for the videos. So well explains. I’ve just done my first bottom pivot bearing. I now want to do the rocket bearing but would like to purchase the pullers to suit rocker bearing. What sizes do I need to complete the job and any links. Thank you Sir !

Awesome video, I own a Trek Remedy that has almost the same big pivot bearings. Now I will be replacing those less worrying about damaging anything! 💪Can you tell me wich grease save loctite your using. Greetings

Could you please give us a link to where you found those 2 bearing presses? Awesome video, as always 🤟🏻

Nice video and very informative,looks similar to doing bearings on my Orbea wild fs,You got that chainring lockring undone pretty easy👌🏻I’m now an owner of a whyte E-160 and bought a lockring tool but can’t get it undone,is there a foolproof way to get it off ??

Hi Dave, brilliant video, I’m due to get a Trek Rail 5 shortly and look forward to replacing the bearings when necessary, where do you get the washers that fit on the pivots, can you please supply a link.

another great video - can I ask were you got that little bearing removal & installer from? Looks like something you made up?? Those RRP ones are quite expensive

i usually tap on the back of the blind bearing puller instead of pulling. Seems to work better in all the cases where you can get in and actually tap.

Great video! Do you think it is safe to use a vise with soft jaws, a drift, with many lighter blows to remove the rocker bearings?

Dave, thank you for the bearing renewal process. I have a question about pivot/bearing maintenance on a Trek Rail (or other eeb). As you know- the pivots and bearings take a fair bit of punishment. What is the best way to keep them tip top? The bike gets a regular clean etc but bearings and their articular surfaces are hard to get to- and WD40 is a no no!! Periodically pulling the pivot bolts out, clean grease and re-insert? Periodically taking the frame apart (like you did at the start) and whacking grease everywhere? Many thanks.

Awesome video. Was wondering is the bike you are working on fully carbon. I’m thinking of getting the tools so I can do myself but wee bit worried with it being carbon. Is it’s safe to draw out the bearings with the rrp press/extractor tool. It’s the fuel ex I have rather than rail but looks really similar

Great video brother, I bought a new rail 9 2022, and am experiencing rattling sounds while doing off roads tracks only, when riding on paved nothing, perhaps you help me is it serious or normal for the rail bikes Thanks

I agree on some points about what you said about bearings but not all, you can buy better bearing for less if u know where to get them from i replaced all my bearings on my mtb but used city seals and bearings and got better bearings than the ones that where for the bike and paid half the price so it isnt strikley true the more you pay the better you get

very good video !! I have to change my bearings on my 9.7 rail... how to remove the black sleeve to be able to use a sliding bearing extractor !?? sorry for my english i am french 😃

Something I do and recommend is popping the rubber/plastic seals and repacking the bearing with lithium marine grease as bearings are usually shipped with grease that is no better than vaseline, that tend to wash out very quckly. Bearings that only pivot I pack 95% full both sides and bearings that spin ~60-70% like bike wheels as they are not a high RPM situation unlike electric motors that rotate at 750-3000 RPM and for longe periods are packed to around 50% anymore and the bearing is at risk of damage and over heating. On an eMTB or MTB you would very rearly reach 400 RPM and only for short periods.

Great vid that pal.I have a question for you, though, regarding the rocker. The bolt where the flip chip is at the back of the rocker, where it meets the top part of the rear triangle, I've rmoved the chip but the bolt on either side doesn't come out .Do you have any suggestions of getting it out so I can disassemble the rear triangle? Thanks.

Do you think bearings are not lubricated properly from new? I always put a drop or 2 of lube in the gaps between moving parts to try and stop water etc finding its way in

Where do you buy the bearning extraction tools please?

Hello why do my fuel ex 5 rear shock holders not come out only the right bolt comes out not the left one. Also one of my main pivots does not budge at all from the bike because I want to grease it. My rear shock makes a freaking when it comes back up from being compressed. Nice video

very good video. What is the name of the tools you use to remove and install the bearings?

Hi Dave, could you let us know the name of the brand of the bearing extractor/installer or a link to buy one? Cheers

My Powerfly has over 20,000km and, every bearing has been swapped out at least once if not twice or more. Constant battle to keep the thing rolling these days. Pay attention to this video if you are new to eMTBs

Can you prise the seal off the new bearing and make sure its packed with grease before installing?

My main pivot bearing are stuck, I've used a brass drift and a bearing extractor that expands inside the inner race. I've sprayed it with loads of penetrating oil and pipe freeze and also a heat gun (very cautiously). None of this has worked, the only think is I can now move the sleeve around and get a better edge so I get more purchase for the drift. Any advice what I can do?

Hello. I would like you to tell me, please, what is the role of the sleeve between the bearings of the main pivot. I'm thinking of giving up on it during the rebuild. Then removing the bearings at the next overhaul will be much easier... Sorry for the spelling mistakes. I am from Romania Thank you.

nice 2 c a new video

Brilliant video, I recently bought a kit to do this and unfortunately it just came with bearing pullers rather than those special ones you were using on the rocker, does anyone know where I can get them from? As I’d feel much more comfortable using them rather than the puller set

Takk!

I have a canyon nerve 7.0 al 2015 sorry to say never done a full bearing change 10 in total bought my bearings from kinetic bearings can do the pivit bearings with a brass drift but the smaller bearings will need specific presses to take these bearings out and press in were his the best place to buy these presses please yours david boardman bolton lancs

Those bearing tools from the 'gian# puller kit'?

Hi Dave. Trying to remove the bearings on cube stereo shock at the linkage. There's a washer/spacer on the insides that rotates but cannot get them out to press out the bearing. Any ideas??

Can you please let us know the link to buy the bearing kits for others Trek bikes?

Any idea where I can buy a full bearing kit in the USA? Kinetic Bearings does not ship to America.

Howdo dave, mines still squeeking after replacing all rear wheel bearings and free hub. Is that a carbon bike dave and can I have a bearing set package no?

Dave , Thanks for the great instructional video's! do you have a link for the bearing press/remover tool?

Hi Dave, what is the brand name of the frame bearing tool you use ?

Can you tell me where to get the bearing pullers

How do you replace the bearings on an ep8 motor

I think if I owned this bike from new I’d take that all apart and pop the seals on those bearings and inject extra grease in there as well as grease on everything else.

Great explanation and was about to say great job but at 30:45 where you remove the bearing your bearing puller takes the paint off the frame around the bearing, I would not be happy, these bikes are very expensive! Think you need to come up with another solution for that bearing extraction.

Tzuru pep, in the end, what does it mean, I have no clue.❤

Excellent video Dave. Do all your customers leave their bikes dirty before giving them to you? Urgh.

2:45 - my rail that doesn't even have a 1000 km on it is creaking in this bracket, I would say that it is badly designed. If the bearings are under a lot of stress they should be bigger and heavier. The bike is so heavy that adding 100g for a larger bearings and their housing changes nothing. My experience with Trek bikes is that there are some shortcuts taken in the designs.

I wish you were my dad.

It's been a very , very long time since Ive prised the seal open and seen an adequate amount of grease in a brand new bearing. Fitters in engineering trades seem to be well aware of this , bike mechanics not so much. Do your customer a favour and pack those bearings! Takes minutes , costs pennies.

Yes DIY is possible but plenty of ways to give yourself grief and cause expensive danage... Add in the costs for all those specific tools and.... Take it to a trusty, knowledgeable bike repair centre.... I did wonder what this full suspension bearing replacement/overhaul service might cost?

31:41 Plastic rd hanger? really?

a £5 to £9k bike needs a total rebuild every 6 months? someones taking the piss!