Originally Posted by james_swift
My Swift has been out of commission since Monday. The bottom bracket appears to be seized in the bottom bracket shell.
I don't know if the bottom bracket seized-up in the shell because of all the wet-wether riding I had been doing, or because the person who installed the bottom bracket forgot to use anti-seize on the threads.
Ouch, hope you get it fixed. Sorry I don't have any great ideas to contribute on fixing it though.
I spent much of my mis-spent youth biking around offroad, including some VERY wet terrain indeed. I never had any trouble with the bottom bracket at all, so supposing your BB is of decent quality it probably isn't that.
Magnus