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>Bottom bracket standards he is right about, way too many manufacturers came up with their own No, he's wrong about this one too. He used to be right, 5-10 ye
by midoridensha 4y ago
>Bottom bracket standards he is right about, way too many manufacturers came up with their own
No, he's wrong about this one too. He used to be right, 5-10 years ago. The bike makers finally saw the light with the ridiculous proliferation of BB standards, and also gave up on pressfit (it caused more problems than it solved, and also the factories just don't have good enough manufacturing tolerances for pressfit brackets to be trouble-free), so they've all been moving to a single threaded BB standard now.
- cycomanic 4y agoThat's simply incorrect, just because Trek and Specialized are using t47 does not mean it's now the new standard. In fact it's just the opposite, just another standard. You're also wrong about it being better. Yes manufacturers have terrible quality control, that's because the big brands outsource to the cheapest manufacturer, buy frames for ~$100 and sell them for $4000 with completely crooked BBs. However screw in BBs don't really help, problems just show up later (which is to their advantage). Pressfit BBs are superior in every way if manufacturers actually followed the specs.