Anyone else riding radial fulls having issues with the bearings popping out? Been riding the 60s for a few weeks (they’re amazing) but usually a little bit into the sesh I gotta crank the bearings back in. At first I thought it was axel slip but then saw the bearing was coming out. Also they don’t slide in when I press em I’ve had to crank em with a tool. Can’t tell if it’s just a bum set or if anyone else is having this problem.
Is it just one wheel or all of them?
I would have to look back over past posts, maybe in the wheels thread, but I had a conversation about this issue before, which has happened with other brand wheels.
If the bearing seat is a bit wide, or the bearing itself a bit too narrow, the bearings are more likely to move on tricks where the wheels have pressure on an angle, like smith grinds used to always make my back heel wheel have problems where the bearing would move and the wheel would stop rolling completely.
I would just put the board on the side, wheel facing me and push down on it to re seat the bearing on the inside and it was fine until the next time I did something that made it move.
Other people I know had to do this after each run, the push down and then the stand on the wheel on the ground and pull up on the one in the air to reseat both bearings. This gets old very quickly and pretty much made me not want to skate those wheels again, but when I changed bearings to another set, it stopped the problem, which was weird.
So maybe try a different set of bearings and see, otherwise go back to the shop you got them from and have them check them out. If it was an online purchase, take a pic or two and send an explanation to them and see.
I still have a brand new set of 97a 53mm's that have a defective wheel where the bearing won't go in but I was too lazy to email DLX.
I actually had something similar just recently. The bearing seat is crooked so the bearing does not fit into the wheel, which is definitely a warranty issue.
The shop you bought them from should be able to take care of that for you as well.