Originally Posted by Squeazel

- The crank in mine is a 2-piece thing that once worn out, will be a monster to replace. If the bottom bracket shell were threaded, it would be standard Italian sized. But it's just 2 cups pressed into an unthreaded shell. "Badmother" has an even worse one on his little U-folder, which is a 40 mm shell (too small for BMX and too big to take threading). He ended up cutting the BB shell out of a wrecked bike and epoxying it right inside the old one.