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;
BikeSmith Design & Fabrication
5349 Elliot Ave S. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417 USA
Ph. (612) 824-2372 http://bikesmithdesign.com