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I've seen some of the cheap bb cups that were chromed right over the bearing raceways, so the chrome flaked off during break-in.

Early Fuji bicycles earned this distinction, so the factory set them up tight, in anticipation of the plating coming off.

How good it was, I sarcastically said at the time, to have all those hundreds of hard chrome chips recirculating amidst the grease. But in practice, most of these early sealed bb cups lasted quite a while, while so many other Japanese marques never even sufficiently torqued the fixed cup, causing loosening within the first few hundred miles.

Those Fuji bb parts also gave new meaning to the term "thick cups".

So, do these new Chinese French-threaded cups have chrome over the races? I bought a pair two years ago, but haven't yet installed them and don't recall too much of what they look like inside.