Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - What bottom bracket are you running?

Hi Everyone. My Steamroller's Truvativ ISIS SL bottom bracket recently started creaking. I have tried all the tricks: grease everything, threadlock everything (well, not everything...), teflon tape. The creak persists! All my options exhausted, I'm going to replace my bottom bracket. What ISIS bottom bottom bracket are you running? I'm considering a Truvativ Gigapipe Team SL or a Race Face Signature XS.

Cheers!

I use cheap Shimano or Campy cartridge square taper BB on my fixies.

me too.

big ups to the cheap bb's

Hi Everyone. My Steamroller's Truvativ ISIS SL bottom bracket recently started creaking. I have tried all the tricks: grease everything, threadlock everything (well, not everything...), teflon tape. The creak persists! All my options exhausted, I'm going to replace my bottom bracket. What ISIS bottom bottom bracket are you running? I'm considering a Truvativ Gigapipe Team SL or a Race Face Signature XS.

Cheers!
All Phil's except for T.A. Cup and cone on the Gitane tandem.


fixedgearhead

Cheap shimano.

I use a cheap shimano. I had annoying creaks last month and I took everything out, totally cleaned out the bb shell and regreased, installed, torqued everything... retightened chainwheel bolts... etc. but I still had the creaks. Then after an hour and a half I took the pedals out and that was it. I even put the originals back in and they are creak-free now. So the moral is, um, use a cheap shimano.

I use cheap Shimano or Campy cartridge square taper BB on my fixies.

My square taper shimano BB is from a '99 Trek VW Mountain bike.

so generic, all metal (no plastic cup) BB from ebay - $9 or so - in the Steamroller.
Had to get an Italian thread Shimy for the De Bernardi

Road fixie - Shinano UN52
Mtn. fixie - Nervar 3-pc

On my new fixie, they're one piece cranks.

On my new fixie, they're one piece cranks.

good luck with that! luckily replacement one piece BBs are a dime a dozen! or you could replace it with a beefy BMX sealed 3 piece setup...

Hi Everyone. My Steamroller's Truvativ ISIS SL bottom bracket recently started creaking. I have tried all the tricks: grease everything, threadlock everything (well, not everything...), teflon tape. The creak persists! All my options exhausted, I'm going to replace my bottom bracket. What ISIS bottom bottom bracket are you running? I'm considering a Truvativ Gigapipe Team SL or a Race Face Signature XS.

Cheers!

I let you on to a secret: ISIS sucks, it is official. Even the Truvativ engineers have admitted that the desing is a dodo. After busting 3 ISIS BB's of various pricegroups last winter, I now run a good old square taper Miche BB which has not given me any s**t so far. Forget ISIS.

I let you on to a secret: ISIS sucks, it is official. Even the Truvativ engineers have admitted that the desing is a dodo. After busting 3 ISIS BB's of various pricegroups last winter, I now run a good old square taper Miche BB which has not given me any s**t so far. Forget ISIS.

I kinda suspected this. :) I've been using a square taper on my MTB without any problems for years. Unforetunately, I don't really want to replace my cranks right now though. It looks like I'm going to go through ISIS BBs until I'm sick of replacing them. Then get new non-ISIS cranks and realize I could have saved the money spent on all those ISIS BBs by getting a non-ISIS setup long ago.