Originally Posted by
mongol777
2 of my winter bikes have sealed shimano BB's (UN 26 and UN 55) - they've been through 3 winters on other builds and just finished their forth winter season. Still smooth and trust me - Toronto has lots and lots of salt.
i guess it depends on what someone defines as a "season." my race buddys consider a "Season" to be atleast 15k miles. if that's what auchen is thinking of, then its very reasonable to have a BB overhall after that timeframe. if you're only doing a few hundreds miles, aunchen would be dead wrong.