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You'd think I'd know better by now. Me and Bregante have just been out for a pre new year pootle. And very nice it was too. Having a brew mid-ride we have the following conversation
"Is that a press fit bottom bracket?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Have you had any problems with it? Mine was a nightmare. Nowt but trouble"
"No, its been great. Not had a squeak out of it"
I knew I was cursed the moment the words left my lips. What an idiot! Hazard a guess what happened on the ride home? Take a wild stab in the dark?
Yes.... It's now creaking like a 90 year old arthritic on a bungee rope. It took a whole 7 miles from the resounding vote of confidence, to now apparently being knackered.
Can anyone beat that then?
"My deore bb seems fine"
(And with those magic words, my deore bb was instantly filled with mud and rust to the point of seizure)
I have never, in abar 20 years of mountain biking, broken a rear mech.
Just off out now for a ride....
Worth checking your crank isn't loose & about to fall off OP!
Which is precisely why I spent so long looking for a threaded bottom bracket frame for my new road bike.
Would have been mightily pissed off if my BB started creaking.
4th Alpine Bikepark week last year, said to my co-travellers that I'd gone 3 years without any major mechanicals due to fully prepping the bike beforehand.
20 minutes later the front brake hose worked loose and started leaking 😳
Over that day I broke:
Gear hanger (bolts worked loose and went AWOL)
Gear cable
Bladder in Pikes burst
Reverb remote hose pulled out, with seat up!
Brake pad material sheared off mid-run and the backing plate welded itself to the disc!
The rest of the week? No problems whatsoever. Me and my big mouth 😳
"Haven't had a single puncture on these tyres since I fitted them. They're aweso......Pffffft...Pfffft...Pffffft...Pfffft...Pffffft...Pfffft...Pffffft...Pfffft...Pffffft...ARSEFLAPS!"
Ha! Just spotted this thread binners. I actually feel responsible and wish I'd never brought it up!
Along similar lines I remember on a certain night last January (doing almost the identical route that binners and I did today) I was asked by a fellow rider whether knee pads were required for the ride we were about to set off on.
"Nah - I never wear em"
Two hours later....
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"I've never had a BB I could not remove, no matter how seized"
ride today, only mtb i had was my jones+ fitted with 3'' tyres.
before we set off someone mentioned the wide tyres and muddy tracks.
i shrugged it off with a 'they will float over it'.
i spent the next hour with chainsuck and dropping the chain, and cleaning the mud out with sticks.
A few years back I was in a car park on the Quantocks joking how I got fewer punctures with a unicycle than a bike. "BANG!" went the tyre as he walked off, as I realised slightly too late that the tyre had pinched the inner tube. Ooops.
I had forgotten any spares, so I went for a walk instead...