I'm in the no-brainer and no-worry bottom bracket realm with SKF bottom brackets on 3 bikes. But the last bottom bracket I failed, a Campy Mirage, failed the seals. Watch for tell-tale grease coming out of your bottom bracket seals, especially if you ride hard, they will quickly spin themselves out and you'll find a BB jammed against your crank arm.
On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 2:17:56 PM UTC-5, dougP wrote: > > With the time change & more riding coming up, I decided to check over my > wife's mini-Lantis. She's easy on equipment so I tend to forget that > eventually everything wears out. I figured it was due for at least a fresh > chain. With the old chain off, I noticed the cranks turned with a distinct > notchiness. Not a good sign. She's never mentioned the bike being hard to > pedal. Turning the cranks slowly by hand I could feel klunk-klunk. There > was no play in the cranks, but clearly the BB was due for changing. Not a > major project but one that was much easier done at home on my schedule > rather than a mid-tour breakdown. > > Bottom brackets are pretty easy to forget about, but it's easy to slip the > chain off the inner ring & turn them by hand. Spring is a good time, and > at-home is a good place. My thought for the day. > > dougP > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
