Originally Posted by
Crankycrank
I think the manufacturers like it because it's easier and cheaper to use in frames with ever widening tubes and it eliminates the cost of threading the BB shell. The evolution of BB's over the years seems to be very minor improvements in weight and stiffness with sometimes a reduction in durability but mostly it's just large doses of hype.
+Eleventy-seven
Not a fan of progressions that limit durability and user serviceability. This is what you get though, when consumers demand the next big thing all the time. You get innovations that aren't necessarily improvements, but are billed as the Second Coming of Pneumatic Tires.
I find nothing wrong with the function of current external-bearing bb's (well, I prefer adjustable square taper for several reasons), personally, and have no desire to "move forward" just so someone can sell me something.
Never drink the corporate Kool-Aid.