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dannywhiteley:
When you build a show/display bike, do you bother with greasing up the BB and headset?  Seems like a lot of unecessary mess to me if it aint going to be ridden.

Also a silly question (but im still a novice).  Which way do the ball races sit in the BB?  Do the bearings rotate against the BB cup or the crank?

subversion:
If you take a loose ball bearing race in the cage & place it flat side down on the table like this:



then put the BB cup over it, covering it - that is the correct fitment :daumenhoch:

Same for headsets too...

The bearings rotate against both the Cups & the Crank races.

MartyC:
I usually grease them up but maybe that's just me  :-\

Dark Diggler:
Grease it, even if it aint ridden, that way, when you missus pisses/pours something on it when you are not in, it wont rust the moving parts  :daumenhoch:

scooby74:
grease it up and ride it  :daumenhoch:

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