Low friction bearings

[cntmunky]

I am working on a drag bike in the UK and thinking of ways to reduce frictional losses. The most obvious is to change the standard bearings on the bike. Has anyone tried this or know of any companies worth contacting? In cars we used ceramic bearings, but am unsure if they will go small enough for our application.

[TEAM78]

ring SKF racing, ask them??
theres also Barden bearings
just make sure the bearings used are european manufactured as some of the chinese stuff is horrible for quality
If a low friction bearing is already being used with a decent greese I doubt there is a performance increase to be had, Theres also Nak-Tek seals? I think there called that anyway. I think some one was playing with silicon nitride bearings for CV joints in F1 not too long ago, I may be wrong though, they would be approx 1/3 the mass of a iron based equivalent

[Notso Swift]

Ceramic bearings are readialy available for bicycles so you should be able to get the right sort of sizes.

[Notso Swift]

These guys did mine:

http://www.endurobearings.com/index.html