Old 12-10-11, 08:37 AM
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Well, I doubt if anyone was holding his or her breath waiting for me to finish this, but I thought I would report back. I finished this job some time ago and as far as I can tell it was all good in the end. I don't have anyone around me that knows stuff about bikes and my LBS is not so local so I rely on the Internet for most of my info.
When I was researching how to do this job, I was amused/distressed to see this page on Wikibooks about bottom brackets. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bicycles/Maintenance_and_Repair/Bottom_Brackets/Bottom_bracket_overhaul
Under ‘Repairs’ it gloomily states “….most amateur attempts will fail.”
This seems unnecessarily pessimistic to me. I am not very intelligent. You could say I failed many times when trying to fix this, but I have finally done it, and now I know how to do it. I am glad this article did not put me off. In fact I have newfound confidence to fix other stuff on the bike. If I take it easy and read up on stuff carefully I doubt that I will do any lasting damage to the bike, so why not give it a go?
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