Different kettle of fish from the square taper world, but I'll be upgrading to a Chris King Threadfit BB ($155) when my disposable Shimano BB ($20) goes bad. Riding in dirt and wet conditions all the time leads to a lot of grime, and I found the cheapo bottom brackets go bad in about a year. With the King design, you can easily flush out and add new grease with a special tool, whereas the Shimanos say "do not disassemble" on the cups and you have to just throw them away when they get contaminated. I'd rather have something that is serviceable and won't creak or squeak (like some cheap BB's do because of larger mfg. tolerances) over the long term.
On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 1:27:49 PM UTC-7, dstein wrote: > > Why are more expensive bottom brackets more expensive? What do you gain? > Is it just durability? Or is there any sort of performance gain (ie, does > it roll smoother, faster, etc)? > > I've worked on most bike parts now minus the bottom bracket and headset. > About to change cranks on my hunqapillar form the Sugino triple (with a 107 > or 110 bb) to a White Industries Eno (with a 113 bb). Trying to figure out > if I go w/ the $40 bb on Riv's site? Or a White Industries or something > similar? This bike will see 500-1000 miles a year on dirt and some mud. And > support the occasional overnighter. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
