Originally Posted by 96Dback

Had to chime in here: I have a 1996 Diamondback Response that came with a set of Sugino 175's and a sealed bottom bracket. This bike has at the very minimum 10,000 miles on it and it has been submerged, stored outside, ridden in deserts and snow and has lived it's life for the most part next to the Pacific Ocean. I am refurbing the bike because I am a sentimentalist and I got to wondering "How long does a sealed bottom bracket with a sealed bearing case last? Mine is functioning at 100% and does not have any play side to side or front to back and makes about as much noise a chain does so to answer your question, I have hammered mine and at 25 almost 26 years, the bastard is nowhere near done. Sugino doesn't f' around!