Re: [CR] RH (clockwise) BB Cups.....was Legnano BB Wuestion

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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:24:56 -0600
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Mark Stonich" <mark@bikesmithdesign.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] RH (clockwise) BB Cups.....was Legnano BB Wuestion


At 1:05 PM -0500 2/9/11, dtshifter@aol.com wrote:
>In ~40 years of riding and working on bicycles, I cannot remember
>either an Italian or French bottom bracket fixed cup (RH) which had
>loosened!! In fact, as many of you can attest, many French threaded
>fixed cups seem to be somewhat "immune" to the removal process!!
>
>Is this actually a problem??

Any single person's experience is too small a sample to be statistically valid, including mine.

But the only fixed cups I've ever seen loosen up in use were French, RH. --

Mark Stonich;
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