Originally Posted by
wrk101
I never liked how the crankset attached to the Octalink. It didn't seem as secure as the old square taper style. Seems over-engineered to me.
Just a personal opinion of course.
It's WAY more secure than the old square taper. I've never had an Octalink arm fall off from working it's way down the taper. I've trashed three square taper cranks this way.
I hate, hate, hate, square taper!!!!!
On the bad side, people have reported that the smaller bearing size tends to lead to premature bottom bracket failure. But at 280#, I never had to replace an Octalink bottom bracket for cross country use.