I was thinking about the bearing issue the other day, and why I never had problems w/ my 1.0. I believe it all has to do with leverage.

A half-offset wheel only has half the width of the wheel to leverage against the outside bearing. A zero-offset wheel has the entire width of the wheel leveraged against the outside bearing. As you know, the longer the lever, the more the mechanical force is multiplied at the other end (in this case, the outside wheel bearing). I drew up a little diagram to help visualize what I'm talking about:



-Howard