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if it's creaking and you're new to home bike maintenance, the first thing to do is blame the bottom bracket. then browse youtubes to gather third-party evidence to support your conclusion, and instead of fixing the problem, just spend the next 10 years bitching about the conspiracy to make your bike suck, so that eventually the manufacturers throw up their hands in despair and return to an older standard that doesn't even make sense for the frame design and looks completely fucked up and wrong, but all the retrogrouches on the internet are demanding it and caving is easier than trying to explain why they're wrong since anything the manufacturers can say will be seen as part of the conspiracy

by that point you'll have enough years of tilting at windmills that you can say "I've been doing my own bike repairs since before you were born kid, so take it from me when I say new thing is dumb and wrong and things were better in the olden days before we had these neuralink implants that tortured us to death if we entertained a negative opinion about the Job Creators who can do no wrong"