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Old 07-13-10 | 10:39 AM
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HillRider
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Bikes: '96 Litespeed Catalyst, '05 Litespeed Firenze, '06 Litespeed Tuscany, '20 Surly Midnight Special, All are 3x10. It is hilly around here!

Once you bevel the shell for the threadless bottombrackets, there is no going back. I'd either braze-fill the damaged threads on the existing shell and recut the English threads (and repaint) or, better, ream and rethread to Italian. If you eventually ruin the Italian threads then a threadless bb would be a last resort.
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