Originally Posted by
hueyhoolihan
like i said, my latest frame had no metal insert in the headtube, so maybe they have fashioned a way to eliminate them in the BB too. if they can, so much to better.
the pic looks like it sure enough is designed that way. so i would just buy the appropriate BB386evo BB and see how it goes.
BTW, is anything tapered in there? it looks in the pic just like my headtube, machined with an angled seat for the bearing.
Think its exactly that, yes, machined with an angled seat for the bearing.
It's funny cause Im getting almost two different answers from Wilier and the folks over at Competitive Cyclist. CC says the BB386 bottom bracket will press directly into the frame, which makes sense since Wilier says in their description that the whole point (or one of them anyways) of the BB386 was "developed to use press fit bottom bracket cups, eliminating the need for alloy inserts in the shell."
But Wilier says: "The 386 bottom bracket systems require spacers that fit right onto the frame. The shell on our 386 frames have an alloy sleeve for the spacers to sit in."
Perhaps, Wilier is assuming I am
not using a BB386 Crank though and if you don't need the spacers, then the alloy sleeve would still be present...but since I am planning on running a 2014 FSA K Force light BB386 with the PF BB386 ceramic BB
maybe the "alloy sleeve for spacers to sit in" isn't necessary?
If the PF BB386 FSA Bottom Bracket sits right in the frame, right against the carbon shell, then everything should be good.
Thanks Slash5 too for the suggestion to just measure...did and its dead on, so should work I guess?
Huge thanks everyone.