Originally Posted by
Campag4life
To me the shock is a gimmick and a poorly executed gimmick. That's why.
I bet you love hitting hornets' nests with baseball bats.
(Yeah, it's a cheap, poorly executed gimmick. But you're never going to convince some of the people who bought it. They want pride of ownership! And they will want you to suffer for pointing out the obvious. At least, until they replace that bike with something else. Then, most of them, too, will jump on the bandwagon.
see also, the early discussions on press fit bottom brackets.)