It's a 22mm bearing as you already know. If you can buy a 22mm round bar, you should be all set. If not, and the rod fits tight, it will only take a couple of thousands taken off the rod. Takes maybe 30 minutes manually with emory cloth. Here in USA, it's darn near impossible to buy metric round bar, so I bought a 3/4" bar and wrapped .005" brass shimstock around it to build it up to 22mm.