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Originally Posted by Trakhak
The guy behind Bullseye components evidently believed that conventional bottom bracket bearing designs were similarly less than optimal, so he designed a bottom bracket that included axial and radial bearings in separate retainers, for a total of four sets of (smaller than 1/4") caged bearing balls in each bottom bracket.
Stronglight made a roller bearing bottom bracket, way back in the cottered crank days. Two sets of rollers: one to handle axial loads, the other to handle radial loads. It never really caught on; reports were that it was very fussy about alignment.


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