Originally Posted by
Lape0019
For $50 Canadian, I wouldn’t worry too much.
The only reason the G gets a bad wrap is how Shimano went about it. Slapping the curado name on a reel that it didn’t belong in was their problem. They dropped the price point and came out with the Chronarch E which was essentially a very similar reel to the curado e.
If the reel would have said citica on it, I doubt there would have been such an outcry. Needless to say, the people I know who have many, enjoy them for what they are.
If you want to swap out bearings, start will the spool bearings as they are the ones that really matter.
And for what it’s worth, I never bought a G simply for the fact that I did not agree with the approach a Shimano took in this reel. But at $50, I’d buy a few to have for sure.