Originally Posted by
skookum
I was trying to figure out how to get the crank off a bike, and I needed to buy another tool, and I thought, "square taper worked fine, why did they have to get rid of it?"
Yeah, I have been touring on square taper bottom brackets and they work fine. On the other hand, they are heavier and the tools are heavier than the tools for some of the other choices. I'll continue to use them on my existing bikes, but I doubt I'd set up a new bike that way unless the point of the bike was to go retro.