It's maintenance time again for my Swift.

1400+ miles and the bottom bracket is showing some excessive play. What's with these new-fangled, non-adjustable disposable cartridge bottom brackets? What happened to the adjustable bottom bracket cups w/replaceable loose bearings? Think about the environment man! All those bottom brackets clogging our landfills!

Ok, so it's been over 7 years between my last bike and my Swift. Things have changed, so I see. I ordered a Shimano UN53 68x107 bottom bracket from Nashbar.

Also worn after 8 months of repeated folding and unfolding, the seatpost quick-release binder bolts. My seatpost has been slipping recently, regardless of how tight I clamped-down the QR's. I borrowed the QR from the stempost and installed it at the top stempost binder. No more seatpost slip. Upon closer inspection, my seatpost QR's are bent in an arc, probably due to normal wear and excessive tightening (my bad). I ordered a replacement set of 45mm QR seatpost binder bolts from Nashbar.

~700 miles: my chain had gotten a bit slack. Had my chaintug failed and allowed the rear axle to slide forward a bit in the dropout? Upon closer inspection, the chain had stretched approx 1/16" past the 12" mark on my steel ruler. I hope I haven't killed my expensive single-speed cog! The SRAM PC-68 chain only lasted 4 months, which is somewhat understandable given the abuse of single-speed use. I ordered a KMC chain from Nashbar. Curious to see if the KMC is more durable (they make motorycle drive chains, as well as timing chains for auto engines).

Will post pictures and findings as soon as I get the goods.