Originally Posted by
maddog34
What baffles me now is why you don't realize that 1) the bike mentioned is NOT my bike.
I quote posts so as to keep the context. You quite clearly said “
my CX racer”. How are we to know that you are talking about someone rather than your cross country racing bicycle?
2) It belongs to a teen that rides in a rain forest all winter long and takes occasional side-trips into a river or creek on those rides. 3)he Regularly wheelies and jumps that CX Bike
And you don’t think that in 20+ years of riding I haven’t crossed creeks, wheelied, jumped, nor ridden in winter? I don’t live near a rain forest but I do live in an area where it snows and the aforementioned bike does double duty as a commuter bike on salted, sloppy winter roads. 20+ years is a long time and certainly more than the equivalent of…what did you say again…”
every 6 months or less” of hard use.
4) i am his mechanic because he NEEDS a good mechanic...
Good for you. But you did represent this as YOUR bike.
5) You have Multiple bikes and spread your bulk between them....
Over multiple years…of even multiple decades and tens of thousands of miles. I don’t baby my bikes…I’ve broken 4 frames. I ride them hard and I keep them running. I’ve just never experienced cartridge bearing failure that you (and many others) claim is so prevalent in that system. Cartridge bearings aren’t as delicate as people make them out to be. They are designed for automobile use where they see far higher loads and stress than they will
ever see on a bicycle.
and finally 6) Not everyone is you, cycho, although you tend to want to think they should be so.. :-D
Well muddo, you aren’t everyone either. Frankly, you are the very first person I’ve ever heard complain that cartridge headset bearings fail with any kind of regularity. I’ve been on these forums for a long time and I can’t frankly remember anyone saying that their cartridge bearing headset has failed at all. We’ve had lots and lots of discussions about every aspect of bicycling here and that’s just not a topic that has ever been broached in my experience. It
may have been addressed but it certainly isn’t a common problem.
PS.. i will not be engaging in your quest to drag meaningless debates out into your typical 30 reply Wastes of time and electrons. Please attempt to find a different victim.
Whatever. Free country and all that.