Originally Posted by popeye

He has changed his position without admitting he was wrong. It used to be pressed fit was the next best thing since sliced bread. If you had a problem it was because some dealer/user did not know what they were doing and they did not use or did use some snot to assemble it problem solved. What we have are a bunch of unhappy customers and a bunch of wrecked frames. I have two bikes with DA7800 with 40-50k miles and the BB has never been touched. Now we have to service the short lived bearings so the mfgs can just press them in while saving a gram. You can color me retro-grouch but it's for a valid reason.