Originally Posted by
JohnDThompson
A high quality cup-and-cone bottom bracket will last indefinitely with regular maintenance. A person may find this preferable to a modern disposable cartridge unit for a number of reasons, particularly if the frame has odd threading for which reasonably priced cartridge units are not readily available.
Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Isn't lasting almost indefinitely a valid enough reason in and of itself? Or are you implying that in our throw away society something disposable is inherently superior to something which, with a bit of service, will stay out of the waste stream?
This is crazy, old guy talk.
Pay no attention
to it. Certainly the time and place in which I live
seems to give it little credence.
Personally, I look forward to inflatable, single
use bicycles (no doubt made from some sort
of carbon fiber/plastic composite) that we will
all (those of of left standing in the first world
anyway) be able to buy from vending machines.
Weight weenies of the future will doubtless
fill the suckers with helium.