Originally Posted by
linberl
Ah, well since i replaced both together I would not have discerned that. Given that, is there a better kind of bottom bracket that has smoother bearings or whatever, that would work in place of the square taper?
If you replace a sickly square taper with a healthy square taper you get so close to mechanical ”perfection” - WRT to the task - that it’ll take pretty decent lab equipment to notice any further improvement.
And this is even while staying in a modest $25-40 range.