SteveA
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No, I'm not intending to pick, I often spend more than I need!Certainly your feelings matter, but regarding parts quality, I tend to be a bit more objective.
Not quite sure, what you're picking at here.
I am also all for objectivity, as a Systems Engineer I used to write objective tests for a living! It's difficult, and hard, to rule out subjectivity.
Motorcycles are subjective and emotional, building, owning, maintaining and riding them does not always reward objectivity!
To be objective, you would need to conduct testing on several bearings and select the one that passed your tests. And that doesn't mean selecting the one that passed your tests by the greatest margin. That is definitely spending more than you need to.
You won't do that, and since you have unintentionally tested one to destruction, I would say you are looking to avoid repeating that by getting a subjective assessment that your choice will meet the demands of your riding! Choosing one brand over another is subjective! Even if that choice is based on experience that says the brand normally meets or exceeds spec.
Most of the time when we think we are being objective, we aren't!
And if we were, we would just sell up all our motorcycles and do something else!
I may need that beer.
the reason the bearings with a re-ground I.D. , and not re-establishing the requisite radius were being sold. 
