Originally Posted by
Tundra_Man
This morning's commute was much less eventful than yesterday's, although colder at 43F.
As I feared after riding through the unexpectedly deep water yesterday morning on my road bike, the bottom bracket has started to creak loudly. Like annoyingly loud. Like pedestrians turn around 50 yards ahead wondering what that sound is loud. Looks like I'm going to have to buy a puller and the tools needed for a BB30 bracket and do some maintenance on it. Rats.
Ew. Press fit BB? Ewwww.
I would try to make tools before buying the actual ones, which will probably run pretty expensive. I made a tool to press in my e-bike's headset cups when I first built up that frame.
Uneventful ride this morning on the road bike. Ran into a snafu trying to replace the bearings in the A530 pedals on Saturday (48 3/32" bearings for the pedal set, smaller than the smallest size I have on hand), and the LBS didn't have them, either. So I reassembled them with the original bearings, but managed to lose 2 in the process, so my left pedal is short 1 bearing on each side. I pilfered my M324 pedals off another bike and stuck them on the road bike last night so I could ride without thinking about whether the pedals would have a problem.
What's worse, the M324 pedals have 62 bearings for the set, and require specialized tools to service them also! Hopefully I won't have to service those for a good long time, but if I do I'll probably try making tools for that, as well.