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I have been misunderstood ! But i stand by my assessment.
90 for a non-ceramic bb is highly priced. What's the point of going c-bear without getting the ceramic option ?
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Depends how good C-Bear really are, I guess... if they're as good as CK but £100 less then that seems pretty good. If they're as good as Sram but £60 more - not so much.
Totally see your point... but have no idea how good they actually are. One thing you can say about a CK is that it'll be difficult to break.... and that at least part of the high price comes from the products being made by happy people with decent pay and proper lunch breaks.
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I think C-Bear is quite a bit cheaper - about £90 atm
https://www.c-bear.com/en/products/bottom-bracket/bsa-ita-sram-gxp
I've heard the Sram ones are good for a few thousand kms but I reckon it's possible to get fit-and-forget BBs for around the £100 mark. There was a ceramic bearings C-Bear somewhere for £160, but ceramic is always expensive.
A brand new ThreadFit is about £190-200 from what I can find online.
You could probably get one secondhand for half that but this is a new-only build because that's basically the deal with buying a Saffron.