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Old 03-01-14 | 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted by never_recover
Edit: sorry I see you already left your bike to the shop... so my opinion is now irrelevant, just ignore what I said..



I'll be the contrarian and suggest you keep the BSA adapter and get a BSA crankset, your post clearly make it sound like you have been completely satisfied with it and the advantages of BB30 are marginal (at best)... What you risk is to get the dreaded creaking sounds if the BB is any less than perfectly installed..

There's a reason Shimano doesn't do a BB30 crankset and it's not only because of the NIH (not invented here) syndrome... If Shimano engineers believed that pressed-in BBs are a good idea they would have done their own version and fix the existing issues while they're at it (just like they did with Octalink vs. Isis)...

And a shop that can remove a pressed sleeve with ease (makes it sound like they do this routinely) but does not have a BB on hand.. bad smell..

Ok first, shimano has a pressfit. they saw wise to create their own standard but whatevs.

second. A BB30 is like the easiest bb to install and the cure for creaking has been known for years. People get creaking due to bad mechanics or bad factory assembly. but loctite 609 or 641 will take care of the problem. Other than the need for loctite I really can't see a problem with it
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