Best Spindle Style
04-17-09, 08:01 AM
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Best Spindle Style
For loaded touring / commuting, where durability and reliability hold sway over mere weight, which spindle style is best? (For modern 9-speed capable frames). Or should spindle style in any way influence crankset choice? Self-extracting cranks would be an appreciated feature, if all else were equal. Disregarding chain ring size and cassette size and even cost, which crank, rings, cassette, and chain BRANDS are best suited for this purpose?
Thank you for your help with this as previous posts really don't address the issues of durability and reliability - just weight and cost.
Thank you for your help with this as previous posts really don't address the issues of durability and reliability - just weight and cost.
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04-17-09, 08:12 AM
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My pops did a tour from the arctic circle to Skagway on a regular square taper crankset, sram cassette and chain. Personally, I would choose a modern 2-piece crankset with a pinch-bolt fastening system as it is easier to work on in the field(all you need are allen wrenches).
04-17-09, 10:59 AM
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I've only ever used square taper BBs and have no complaints about that interface. If I were going on a long tour, especially if I were passing through areas far from major centres, I'd use parts that are common and easily replaced.
My on/off road touring build is using a square taper BB, mountain bike cranks and an eight speed drive train for just this reason (plus I'm cheap).
My on/off road touring build is using a square taper BB, mountain bike cranks and an eight speed drive train for just this reason (plus I'm cheap).
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skip octalink and ISIS, square taper is far superior to them.
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+1 on the ISIS warning. Many of them were pretty short lived. Disagree on the Octalink. Shimano did a much better job and these have been quite reliable.
That said, the square taper is well proven and a durable and easily found type of bottom bracket with an excellent track (pun unavoidable) record.
That said, the square taper is well proven and a durable and easily found type of bottom bracket with an excellent track (pun unavoidable) record.
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well, at the point of having 2 different and incompatible versions, v1 and v2, shimano did what campagnolo did with segregating record/chorus crank and BBs from the rest. (much to the headache of end users)
but that's the only reason why I don't think octalink is good.
at least shimano switched back to having everything cross compatible with the outboard BB.
but that's the only reason why I don't think octalink is good.
at least shimano switched back to having everything cross compatible with the outboard BB.
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nothing wrong with the isis spindle, just the size and quality of the bearings attached to most of them.
have had no problems with skf bb.
https://www.skf.com/portal/skf/home/i...517230&lang=en
have had no problems with skf bb.
https://www.skf.com/portal/skf/home/i...517230&lang=en
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FWIW I'm not a fan of self-extractors. I've stopped using them on my personal bikes. I've just encountered too many cases in which the self-extracting rings stripped the threads out of the crank arm.
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04-18-09, 07:07 AM
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Just use a square taper and a sugino touring crankset. The most common type of bb is also perfectly reliable, and easy to find.
https://www.velo-orange.com/suoldlotr.html
https://www.velo-orange.com/suoldlotr.html
