FSA PF30 Road BB Bottom Bracket - Light Blue

Whilst not necessarily the fault of the BB itself, I'm getting sick of buying and replacing these, particularly at a seemingly ever increasing price! For any marginal benefit over the previous screw-in standards, the working lifespan (c.1 year of commuting) and near impossibility of preventing creaking is a nightmare. Given the specialist tools I purchased to extract the old and press in the new ones of these, I'm equally loathed to spend even more on tools to be able to install a threaded pf30 option like that offered by wheels manufacturing (which would be my recommendation if you haven't got the tools yet). I can't wait for the end of PF30. My only positive thing to say about the FSA version is that at least it lasted longer than the SRAM version I tried, which seized within 6 weeks.

Yes, great when new. All smooth etc.Bought a special tool to install it and installed it with a wack of loctite.After about 6 months of weekend use (on and off-road) and indoor training it creaks like a haunted house again.Do I buy the more expensive Bottom Brackets next to avoid the creaking? Probably not, for the price difference I may as well keep replacing the bottom brackets....

A fairly simple straight swop to a identical bottom bracket using the removal/install kit also purchased from Amazon, and hopefully the bearings will last another four years off riding all year round.

Very easy to fit. Good fit(in fact so good I measured diameter of bearing housing an BB before trying to pressing in as I thought I might have wrong size 😊) but need specific tools for job. (Removing old BB was a different matter. Took fair effort and glad it wasn’t a carbon frame)

So far no more crunching/ grinding / creaking