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[Mike Mcdermid]

It amazes me how well marketing guys can make a change (whose main benefit is reduction of cost in large volume manufacturers) into a must have improvement.

These marketing guys are pissing on your back and telling you its raining.

Didn't that Klein bloke press oversize stuff into bikes when most of us were much....er much much younger

[steve garro]

Didn't that Klein bloke press oversize stuff into bikes when most of us were much....er much much younger

And Ritchey, Fisher, Fat Chance.....
It SUCKED.
Hammers & Rust, baby.
- Garro.

[Dancingbear]

And Ritchey, Fisher, Fat Chance.....
It SUCKED.
Hammers & Rust, baby.
- Garro.

And before those were Lambert, then Viscount..............gawd I'm old.

[Gattonero]

And Ritchey, Fisher, Fat Chance.....
It SUCKED.
Hammers & Rust, baby.
- Garro.

Has to be said that there was hardly any frame-prep tools, and copper Grease wasn't in fashion for the bike industry in those days...

[steve garro]

Has to be said that there was hardly any frame-prep tools, and copper Grease wasn't in fashion for the bike industry in those days...

We had a full Campy tool kit and knew all about anti-sieze, actually.
…..At least here in AZ…..
- Garro.

[Gattonero]

Ah! I do remember all those bloody Fisher PF bearings being put with no f**king grease at all! What a pain!!

[steve garro]

Ah! I do remember all those bloody Fisher PF bearings being put with no f**king grease at all! What a pain!!

Well, all the rust and moisture had to have somewhere to go, and it always went down.
Some of the removals on those old MTB's were truly epic.
Breaking hammer handles and shit.

Somebody, and I think it was WTB/Cunningham had the foresight so do sealed press fit but with tiny zircs on the top of the BB shell - genius.
- Garro.

[nash]

I wonder why in the evolution of bottom brackets no one ever used something like a headset with press in cups. Or did someone and I have simply never seen such a thing?