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Old 02-23-14 | 09:30 AM
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Bikes: 1966 Paramount | 1971 Raleigh International | ca. 1970 Bernard Carre | 1989 Waterford Paramount | 2012 Boulder Brevet | 2019 Specialized Diverge

Question: Swapping out spindles

I'm helping a neighbor do some work on his bike. He posed this question to me: Can he swap out a Sugino spindle for a Campy spindle? My first response to him was no, I didn't think it would work - but that comes from me never having tried it before. So I thought before I pronounced his plan dead that I would pose it to this group first. Here are the specifics:

His frame currently sports a Campy BB, the crank he's removing is Strada, 151 BCD. He wants to replace the Strada with a Sugino AT triple, which requires a longer spindle. As it happens, he has the correct Sugino spindle but not the complete BB. He wants to swap out the Campy spindle for the longer Sugino spindle. Can't be done, right? Or am I passing along bad intel?

I will now bow to the collective wisdom.
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