Originally Posted by
joejack951
It's really not that tight. Perhaps if you only work on bikes I guess it could seem excessive. I've never had any issue achieving that torque or removing a lockring torqued to that spec.
Yes 40nm is ridiculously tight. It's not an issue of acheiving said torque, that's easy as you said. The only things I can think of offhand that is 40nm (which is at the max range of torque for the bolts is crank bolts, and bb cups.