Once you feel like you've cleaned the bearing enough (usually, this is when black gunk stops coming out), pat it with a towel or rag to get the excess lubricant off, and set it aside. You'll want to set it on it on some more rags or towels - it will continue to leak for a while.
Repeat with each bearing (you should have 8, two for each wheel)
Once you are done, you can let the bearings leak and dry out a little if you would like. However, this isn't required! Feel free to slap these freshly cleaned bearings right back into your old wheels, or into new wheels, or whatever else your master plan involves, and skate away!
Now, there's another, much less effective way to clean your skate bearings - but it's even faster!. Read on for more super skateboard maintenance secrets.
