mstateglfr 

Not sure why you are responding this way to me- I wasnt the one who posted the comment.


this applies well to the some in this thread...

Gresp15C

Same as the helmet thread. Great idea.

Ghazmh

Tri-flow.

cjenrick

search function here is from 1950, pretty much useless,

type in "disc brakes" and you get a recipe for french toast.

it actually works better to go back out to the google page and type "disc brakes bike forums" and you actually get some related topics.

as for the rest of the software? more bugs than joe's apartment.

i tried to remove one letter from a post and it erased the whole post!

one time i tried to "go advanced" to upload a pic and it took me to a completely different thread!

as far as the edit function is concerned? best to look over your post because you will wait while it fidgets around, popping up blank windows before your text finally appears 5 minutes later, if you try clicking on anything while waiting to edit, a whole new set of bugs may take over,

yeah, been to a lot of forums and this place is by far the worst.

me i can not use fenders because of a sticky pine needle problem on the bike trail which at one time completely locked up my rear wheel. so after every wet ride we do a full body workout on the bike. bottom bracket gets repacked every month, hubs every two months, sealed bearings? not as sealed as you think. and once water gets in, it stays sealed in.

easier and cheaper to repack bearings than press in new sealed bearings.

we like the tri flow on the dia compes also.

Moisture

I'm pretty sure all these forums are all powered by the same forum "engine"

I was pretty impressed with how clean the inside of my rear hub, headset and bottom bracket looked after 40 years. The original grease was sticky and useless, there was almost no grease left in the bearings inside the headset, yet everything still moved okay. The bottom bracket felt smooth, but it had some play in It. The bearings looked rougher inside than I initially imagined.

Otherwise, very little dirt or water seemed to have gotten into there. I noticed the biggest difference after regreasing the rear hub, packing it with new bearings and replacing the severely bent axle. Also replaced the old dry rotted tire as a bonus. Rolled much smoother otherwise. Maybe all the impacts over the years is what caused the most damage to the bearings. The grease in there was obviously useless, but otherwise mostly intact.

So my question is, how often would you releasrically recommend servicing a hub? Bottom bracket? Headset?

I could have left the headset and bottom bracket alone if I really wanted to. But I'd definetly take a part my hub and regrease every 4 years or so if riding in mostly mild weather.

My bike took a big hit riding in wet and gritty weather. I began to mostly avoid riding in this sort of weather.

Troul 

thread engagement can over time change if it sees repetitious fastener movement, which then can cause a plastic zone in some instances.

I wouldn't expect a yearly breakdown for cleaning to raise much concern, but if grit is introduce in a thread (accidents happen) it can increase the tolerance. Thus, making the assembly not achieving a holding torque value.

press fit components would be more a concern.

Gresp15C

Indeed they are. The hot tip for searching a forum is to let Google search the forum for you, by including the site name in the search string, e.g.:

how often should I oil my pivot points “site:bikeforums.net”

At a bare minimum, once per lifetime of the bike. Since I ride mostly old bikes, every bike gets a complete teardown and rebuild when I first lay my hands on it. Opening and cleaning the bearings is the only way to inspect the balls and races. Whether they were ever lubed or adjusted is an unknown until you find out. I have a 1963 Schwinn cruiser whose bearings are all in perfect shape despite still having the factory lube when I got the bike. But the grease was dry and crusty, so I cleaned and re-lubed everything. Once.

Beyond that, depends on the bearing and the operating conditions, and I have no fixed rule. Definitely if a bearing starts to sound crunchy. If a bearing ends up getting ruined, I would chalk it up to experience and replace it with a sealed bearing. Your bike comes from an era when better bearings had better seals. On the earliest bearings, the grease was the seal.

If I'm riding a bike with old fashioned bearings, under gritty conditions, it's with the understanding that the bearings are living on borrowed time.

indyfabz

I use it quite successfully much of the time. Just last week I searched for a found a 7 year old post by a specific poster that I had remembered from way back then to compare it to something he recently posted. Wasn't hard at all.

A simple search of "chain lube" in thread titles only would give the OP reading material to to keep himself busy until rapture.