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Old 12-03-11 | 07:59 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!

Originally Posted by himespau
Huh, it's weird that yours was so different than what is listed. I wonder if the table I found didn't know what it was talking about or maybe you just had an odd frame. I hope my bb works. If not, well, it was free and I'm not using it for anything else and I can get a different one for fairly cheap.
Yeah, the Trek was an aluminum frame MTB and had very fat chainstays so the non-drive side crank arm had to be way outboard to clear them. The OEM bottom bracket was a Suguino cup-and-cone type installed "backwards" (i.e. the long side of the spindle faced the non-drive side) to get the crank to clear. When I replaced it with a cartridge I had to go all the way to 127.5 mm to get the nds clearance but, even at that, the chainline was ok enough to shift well.
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