How to clean your longboard or skateboard bearings

Cleaning your longboard or skateboard bearings is quite a time-consuming exercise, but it's worth doing if you've got the time, inclination, and you want to save yourself a few quid on some new bearings.

The basic sequence of events we're going to show you goes like this:

-Degrease your bearings
-Clean your bearings
-Regrease your bearings

Things you will need:

-About half an hour that you value less than spending £15 on a new set of bearings. If you're reading this it's probably dark outside, or raining, or both. If it's sunny, stop right now and go skateboarding - cleaning your bearings is not for daylight!
-Skate Tool or 1/2" Socket to take your wheels off
-Knife blade, pin or something else small, sharp and pointy
-Grease - for maximum protection againist water at the expense of roll speed, use a thick engine grease. We recommend Bones Speed Cream or Sabre Bearing Lube - these are skate-specific lubes that don't protect from water ingress as well, but are specially designed for skateboard bearings and rolls much faster. Here's a bit more detail on recommended lubes for -skate bearings.
-Degreaser or solvent - we use Citrus degreaser for this. Petrol is a good alternative, as is White Spirit. WD40 works if can't find anything else. Engine degreaser or similar will work too. If you're really desperate, you can degrease your bearngs with washing up liquid and warm water - but make sure you dry your bearings out afterwards!!!!
-A bit of rag
-A metal or plastic tin with a lid
-A flat work surface that's clean, dry and well lit.
-Optional - Hair dryer. We're using a heat gun set on the "cold" setting.

We hope this helps keep your rolling fast!

[slimbomb]

Sweet, don’t know why this is the vid that made it click for me but thank you!

Can’t wait to get a normal board and learn that as well! Cheers 🎉

[LexaRaeGDSKY]

Will Cisco work for grease? I have nothing else atm 😂

[allwoundup]

Citrus degreaser isn't really "healthier". Every product in the market has a laundry list of warnings on the back label. Some of them even tell you not to handle it with bare hands like you did in this video.