Originally Posted by
Campag4life
You maybe guilty of good imagination. If you are talking a threaded BB, it doesn't matter. Each side is independent of the other.
Nothing to do with imagination, except that I imagined why there was more resistance when I tightened the one side up fully while the other side was only just snug, as the instructions dictated. On the campy BB the right side has a flat while the left side does not and it enters into the bike's BB shell. Since they each support the two ends of the bottom bracket, they aren't really independent, are they? And while I may be guilty of having an imagination, I suppose you may be guilty of not having one. I'm just reporting the results I had, which was less resistance when spinning the cranks, no load. But thank you for your concern.