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Bearings & bushes

Classic Motorcycle Bearings & Bushes

Bearings are the parts that decide whether a rebuild lasts a season or a decade, and on machines of this age they are rarely still to the size the factory fitted. Anything that has been rebored, reground or reshimmed before you got to it needs measuring rather than assuming.

This category holds the bearings and bushes we stock across the marques we supply, from crankshaft and gearbox bearings to the small bronze bushes that wear quietly and take the handling with them. Most are listed by size as well as by machine, so a set can be ordered against your own measurements.

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Measure before you order

Bearing housings and journals on classic machines have often been worked on more than once. Oversize and undersize fits, rebuilt cranks and worn housings are all normal, so take your own readings from the parts in front of you instead of working from a book figure. If a bush has spun in its housing, the housing needs attention before the new bush goes in.

What this category covers

  • Bottom end: main bearings, big-end shells and roller bearing components
  • Transmission: gearbox and mainshaft bearings, layshaft bushes, clutch bushes
  • Wheels and hubs: wheel bearings, seals and spacers
  • Chassis: swinging arm bushes, fork bushes, headstock bearings
  • Small bushes: rocker, lever and pedal bushes in bronze and steel

Not sure which size you need?

Give us the machine, the engine number and the dimensions you have taken, and say whether anything has been reground or resleeved. It is a short conversation and it beats fitting a bearing twice. If you are rebuilding a bottom end we can look at the whole set at once rather than one item at a time.

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