the saga of the damaged bb
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Originally Posted by
SadieKate
Nonononono. What am I missing? Is your BB damaged or your crankset? Or both?
If only the BB is damaged, there is no reason to change the crankset. Just replace the BB.
Ahh, I said change the whole thing because it seems, from what i've been told. It's just cheaper to change the whole lot. heh.
I think its time to tell the story of the damaged BB and hear what all the more experienced cyclists have to say...
Well basically.. about a month ago, I was riding and then I heard like a loud 'ping' sound. I thought I hit a stone, coz I didn't flat. But a few seconds later, my gears started slipping a little, and the gears would not shift properly. I thought something was wrong but my guy friend was like.. nah.. it's fine just keep riding. So I kept riding for about... 14km and then suddenly at a traffic light my crank arms jammed up. fortunately I was like 100m from this LBS, my original destination. We were riding there to join this group on a ride. So there the bike mechanic opened up and the internal cover (i dunno what its called, its behind the crank arm cover, u need to open that to get to this cover) had come completely out of its threads. basically popped open. so that was the 'ping' i heard.
A week later, i was riding when my gears started slipping again... 5km later the crank arms jammed up.. we were in the middle of nowhere, at night and I had to call my dad come get me. This time I asked my dad to send the bike back to the LBS for me the next day..
LBS calls me the day after, says the cover came out again, he was using some thread lock on the thing and just to take it back and try it out.
So that weekend I went on a 100km ride. in the last 20 km I kelt like something inside felt weird so I just pedaled slowly, went back and sent the bike back to the shop. (to be accurate I left it at my parent's house and he went to pick it up from there coz he lives nearby)
this time round he calls me couple days later, says that the ball bearings in my BB are loose and that I can make use of this opportunity to upgrade my crankset ($200 and above) or replace the BB for $40..
So i spoke to a few pple who told me its hardly my fault since I've only had the bike for 2 months and it was new to start with.
Called him back and after some toing and froing he says that the suppliers do not cover wear and tear and that fine he would replace it out of his own pocket. All the time still blaming me for 'riding it while the cover was loose'
point is.. it's an internal cover and I'm not a mechanic. my gears were slipping how was I to know something inside had fallen out?
So now will campy cover this if i try to contact them? I'm asking because I'm not sure if it was really my fault since I know next to nothing about bike mechanics. So maybe some of you would have had similar experiences or better information?
Shipping to foreign country
It's amazing the ignorance in the world. I am in Hawaii, which is part of the US and always have to educate people about shipping. Even the "mainland" 48 other US states don't realize the US Postal Service rates to Hawaii are exactly the same as any other state. They always try to add on extra fees and costs and I just move on to another vendor if they try to jack me around. UPS and Fed Ex, etc., is another matter and does get more expensive because there is no "ground" shipping here.
Maybe you can have a mail service in the USA like Mail Boxes Etc. receive your order, then have them package it back up and forward it to you in Singapore.