Originally Posted by
fooferdoggie
but they do have a issue with rusting out if you ride in lots of mud. glad they changed over to a normal chainring though. well the sound is coming from the back so I guess I will take the chains off and see if its the bottom bracket. and try our spare wheel.
Notable; SKF bottom bracket cartridges (expensive! 10 year warranty!) offer a stainless steel spindle, makes sense to me, rust would eat up the bearing seals, but they state that it's "more brittle than cromoly", meets city and trekking bikes standards, but not racing bike, so for the hardest hammering riders, they recommended someone else's bottom bracket. A bit surprising to me, as stainless steels have advanced a ton, offering both high strength and hardness, and toughness, but this has mostly been for powder-metallurgy steels, a very expensive process (like an order of magnitude greater cost).
https://www.renehersecycles.com/shop...-square-taper/