Originally Posted by
63rickert
Bicycles are not light load applications. Stand a 200# rider on a 6-3/4" crank arm and that is a lot of torque. At super low rpm, which is worst case for maintaining lubrication. Add in that everything on a bike is underbuilt and nothing remains in alignment. If it ever was in alignment.
If you say so, but I’d still like to see the engineering specs. I still believe bikes are relatively light load compared to industrial applications. Anyway I don’t really care all that much, so I’m gonna to go for a ride.