Planned obsolescence in cycling

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kjlem

Sram GXP bottom brackets also feel like planned obsolescence to me, although they're probably unintentionally badly designed.
The bearing on 1 side wears our after a few 100km and they still kept making gxp cranks for a long time.

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psee in reply to @kjlem

Wut. Exclusively used GXP on all my bikes for 10+ years and never had a single issue.

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kjlem in reply to @psee

How many km/ miles did you get out of 1 bb normally before it sounded like it had sand in the bearings instead of grease?
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Netakure in reply to @psee

Same here, I change more often cables than BBs. It's contamination what kills them, SRAM aren't the worst sealed but Shimano BBs are better at that

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