best place to get bearings?

[vartiak15]

what is the cheepest place i can get some swinger bearings for a 85 200x?

[MTS]

i would go anyware but OEM honda..lol if you take the old berings to a place like bumper to bumper or napa or comarcial bering they normally have them at a decent price too

[TrikeKid]

find out the dimensions you need and go to a regular industrial bearing place. when companies design bikes they use as many standard parts as possible to keep tooling costs down. a riding buddy did this with his CR250 after he went duning and ended up destroying his bearings. honda shop wanted like $40 for two bearings went to a regular bearing store with the demensions and type he needed and got them for about $3 a piece.

[atcmatt]

I beg to differ TrikeKid. I went to an industrial bearing shop here in Aus to get bearings for my 250es, all of the bearings and seals on it, except engine bearings. There was over 12 diffrent bearings and 12 diffrent seals. I could only get about 5 of the ones i needed. The rest the bloke said were funny sizes and that i would have to go oem, he said that honda and other manufacturers make them off sizes so that you have to go and buy oem, thus they make ALOT of money off you. Not sure if its true, just from personal experience. It does make sence though. And makes your wallet a hell of alot lighter :(

Matt

[TrikeKid]

one thing i have seen matt is that manufactures change the sizes of bearings and seals etc from country to country. we had a truck mounted crane from japan that was an american model but my dad wouldnt use because all of the seals were odd ball sizes. theres always ebay.

[kilabeez0]

ebay. i have brand new bearings for my 200x that i never used cuz i ended up buying a mint swing arm with like new bearings :) and since your dropping the coin on bearings, check out the "swingarm kit" that some guy sells on ebay, comes with a new collar and everything u need for like $40. looks like nice stuff and at a good price.

[TimSr]

Swingarm bearings are hard to find at a bearing shop. Pivot Works makes swingarm bearing kits, but I doubt they have 200X unless its fits something else. Get OEM at servicehonda.com.