Comments on: Busting the ILQ bearing myth

By: gabriel

gabriel — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:12:56 +0000

I was wondering why I went to stores in Israel asking for “ABEC-9″ and recieved an answer “today we are using only ILQ”… now i understand it a bit better.

thnaks man,
for sure, I’ll look more into it.

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:08:49 +0000

Boaz,

Thanks for the information. Has anyone done a study that compares different bearing manufacturers that rate their bearings using the ABEC scale as compared to Twincam or the SG bearings that Rollerblade is using? An independent rating/comparison would be the best. It seems that using good materials as well as design and construction are more important than machining tolerance (as long as the tolerance is not too loose) for providing a long lasting bearing that can handle the weight of a 200 lb adult and the side loads that this weight brings.

Thanks Again!!

By: Boaz Arad

Boaz Arad — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:35:05 +0000

Sean, you seemed to have missed the point.
Think of it this way: ABEC-7 is a broad standard that covers many different brand – to use a food analogy, think of ABEC-7 as a hambuger.
ILQ-7 is a specific model of bearings, made by one manufacturer. Using the same analogy – it would be a Big-Mac Hamburger made by McDonalds.

What just you said, is the same as saying “The Big-Mac I ate today is tastier than the hamburger I ate yesterday. I think Big-Macs are tastier than hamburgers”
Unless you’ve tried every other hamburger out there, it would be hard to say that your claim is valid.

You may have been skating on “spin” brand ABEC-7 bearings, that were inferior to your new “twincam” brand, ILQ-7 model bearings.
“BSB” Brand ABEC-7 bearings may be superior to your ILQ-7’s
While all ILQ-7 bearings are identical, many different brands make bearings that conform to the ABEC-7 Standard – some may be better than Twincam’s ILQ’s, some may be worse.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:31:26 +0000

Thanks for the info, I have a set of blades with ILQ-7 beaqrings in them. I like them, I find them much much better than the previous ABEC-7’s I had. I would definitely reccommend them.

By: Mx

Mx — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:14:09 +0000

Parfait exellentes info !!
Merci infiniment !!!

By: marco

marco — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:04:18 +0000

Wow! That’s everything that I needed to know and more. I appreciate your objectivity: it’s so important when doing comparisons like these. Good job and & thx a million!

By: kkkkoaaa

kkkkoaaa — Fri, 26 May 2006 11:41:39 +0000

Keep a good job up!