Originally Posted by Inpd

Of course it is. Those Chin Haur BB didn't work perfectly for years and fail one day, they were inherently defective from the start and then broke after.

Earlier batches (not sure about the ones I changed over) would literally break off at the spindle leaving the rider with one leg clipped into a pedal which was not attached to the bike. Those spindles under stress must have been twisting and couldn't have been transmitting power particularly well.