Originally Posted by dougland89

so wait, how did you just notice this? how did you not realize it upon installation of the bb?

Originally Posted by qtipconnoisseur

The problem is that I didn't know how to put together a bike when I first got it built. Which is why I did take it to my LBS, but the mechanic who put it together didn't say a word about it. Second, it didn't take me two years, I bought the bike less than two years ago. I only noticed once my BB came loose, which was also the time I decided to learn how to work on my bike myself. Once I tried taking the BB off (after the first mechanic re-tightened it), I had no idea which way to turn in order to take it off. Neither did the other mechanics at my LBS. I had to leave the frame with them so that they could work on it. After they managed to get the cups out, I had to draw little arrows in sharpie on the BB shell so I knew which way they'd turn to loosen.