GonaSovereign wrote:They're designed to benefit the builders, not the owners, and the problems have been downloaded to the people who need to live with the bikes. That sucks.
How does lower weight and higher stiffness not benefit the rider?
I'd say that the problems are associated with poor tolerances and having way too many different options.
The Klein Quantum I bought in '88 had pressed in BB cartridges. It worked fine then and could work fine now. I put about >50k miles on that thing and never replaced the bearings... just popped off the seals and regreased them periodically.
I'm fairly clueless about the new BB stuff, but the idea if plastic bearing housing pressed into a carbon BB shell sounds like it should work. I guess they call that "press fit"? What are the issues with that system?