I hear ya! I can tell you first hand, high mileage leads to hazardous conditions. I'm in my 40's and I've been pulling on my crank a couple of hundred times a day for the last thirty-some-odd years. Do the math and thats upwards of 2.5 million tugs. You'd have thought that it would at least get a little bit longer but no such luck. All that abuse had lead to serious reliability issues. Heck, just the other day, I tried tuggin on it in the shower and it wouldn't even get hard. I'm not sure what the