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Old 09-24-12 | 04:20 PM
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Banzai
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Joined: Jul 2005
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From: St. Paul, MN

Bikes: Cannondale CAAD9, Ritchey Breakaway Cross, Nashbar X-frame bike, Bike Friday Haul-a-Day, Surly Pugsley.

I might need to get one of those.

What I'm most irate about is the fact that it's nearly impossible for me to remedy my BB30 issues. I do all my own wrenching, and I'm good at it. There are just a few very expensive and low-use tools that I don't own, one of which is a headset press. Considering that (so far) my press-in headsets have been install-and-forget items, this has not impacted my life in any way.

With a Shimano HTII bottom bracket, if the thing completely breaks down I can simply use my very inexpensive wrench to remove it, and in under a minute have a new one screwed on. With BB30, the bearings have to be "punched" out, and new ones laboriously installed with a headset press. In other words, I have to pay a shop for a labor-intensive repair on a part that, by all accounts, is going to fail on me in the same way in the near future.

Seriously, if they were going to manufacture something as apparently failure prone as the BB30 bottom bracket, they should have made it a snap to remove/replace. Why is my most durable bottom bracket system the one I can also replace the fastest?
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