Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - bb30

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Soil_Sampler
03-16-11, 06:02 PM
http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/03/05/nahbs-2011-don-walkers-matching-track-and-road-bikes-updated-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-72388

Looking forward (and showing his track roots), he’s developing a BB30 style track crankset with a third party because it’ll bring a lot of stiffness to a discipline that can really use it.

vw addict
03-16-11, 06:22 PM
fixing something that's not broke again...
Scrodzilla
03-16-11, 06:29 PM
Mehhhhhh.

91MF
03-16-11, 07:35 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRLZk2Rik0c
PlattsVegas
03-16-11, 08:14 PM
^ I guess I just don't get some of the humor on these forums...
Cynikal
03-16-11, 09:01 PM
I don't think BB30 in a steel frame makes a lot of sense but I would like to talk to Don about it. Don't get me wrong, I know steel can be make stiff enough to benefit from BB30 but as I understand it you have to remachine the BB after brazing due to the tolerances. But as a format, I really like my 2 BB30 bikes.
mihlbach
03-16-11, 09:05 PM
I'm sure the BB30 is stiffer...but its one of those things that is never going to matter to 99.999% of the people out there, even most amateur racers. If someone wanted to give it to me free...sure, otherwise, its not worth getting a hard on about, at least not until its mainstream and the parts are readily available with time-tested designs.
cc700
03-17-11, 12:37 AM
it’ll bring an infinitesimally small amount of stiffness to a discipline that prizes stiffness over athletic performance even though stiffness has far less to do with who wins than people like to think.

jk
91MF
03-17-11, 05:38 AM
^ I guess I just don't get some of the humor on these forums...


cool avatar bro
PlattsVegas
03-17-11, 03:47 PM
scrod picked it for me in one of the threads
Squirrelli
03-17-11, 03:52 PM
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/683991-The-quot-new-avatar-quot-thread.
PlattsVegas
03-18-11, 05:12 PM
To be honest, I don't even understand the significance of my avatar.
Scrodzilla
03-18-11, 05:23 PM
It has none aside from the method I used to pick it for you. :lol:

Vic - I'm bummed you never used the one I gave you.
Soil_Sampler
03-18-11, 05:53 PM
j(er)k

cute...



more stiffness...

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Squirrelli
03-18-11, 08:07 PM
Vic - I'm bummed you never used the one I gave you.
In my defence, my assigned avatar does not include a squirrel or a cat. :P
Scrodzilla
03-18-11, 08:13 PM
True.