My first attempt at installing a new crankset on a square-taper BB went as poorly as it could a few years back. The spindle lengths matter for what? Here's how it went (*Bold are actions I took*, *italics are my thoughts as best I can recall*):
1. *Shiny new drive-side crankset goes on the spindle. **Crank down the bolt. Done. Terrific! That was easy!* 2. *Inspect by brilliant handy work. **Oh wait, why the heck isn't this thing spinning? Crap--the small chainring is jammed against the chainstay! Better remove the bolt and back it off.* 3. *Pulling and shimmying for a few minutes.* *This thing's on there good! Better use the crank puller.* 4. *Crank puller fail.* *Oh crap, it's so tight it just stripped the treads on my new crank! WTF??* 5. *Went to Google: *"how to remove square-taper crankset" 6. *Went to Amazon: order placed for pulling tool. **Yeah, this will get it off.* 7. *Pulling tool arrives. **Pulling tool fail.** F#*k! This #$#%ing thing just ruined my crank!* 8. *Facepalm. Desperation sets in--t**o the Dremel tool. **I just need to get the damn thing off. Screw saving the crank.* 9. *After about 20-30 minutes of cutting into my alloy crank, it came off the bike.** I'm NEVER using a square-taper BB again.These things are cursed!* For the record, I am actually mechanically-inclined and do all of my own bike maintenance. But this was a blatant lack of understanding of these BB on my part. And despite swearing off square-taper BBs, I am actually running one on my Roadeo which I've installed successfully myself on two different bikes. Learning has occurred. Austin in MD -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0c16c23e-560c-427d-9bb0-ed0c246cd540%40googlegroups.com.
