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Old 06-23-15 | 09:08 AM
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daaxix
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Originally Posted by PatrickGSR94
mmmmm looks delicious I need to keep that in mind when I start my commuter bike build. Can it take fenders also?

Odd that you had to paint your calipers. I just bought a BB7 a couple weeks ago and it was already black.

Thanks!

I purchased this particular BB7 road set a few years ago, and back then the road only came in silver I think, and the MTB version's were black. Is this one in the picture a road? I know they recently came out with some different versions of the BB7, with black for road bikes.

If you decide to go the Shimano road 11 speed route, be careful, they changed the freehub body width. This has caused some problems with my wheel build, specifically I cannot use an XT hub with an 11 speed road cassette like I originally wanted, and my rear axle spacing is 135mm OLD. I wanted centerlock discs and a 36H hub with the 135mm OLD that can accommodate the new 11 speed cassettes.

Shimano does make a 135mm centerlock rear hub (for cyclocross, the CX75 series), but it only comes in 28H.

(Un)fortunately I was only able to find one hub that is 36h, centerlock, and 11 speed compatible, the White Industries CLD (which costs a lot). I had to go this route because I had already purchased everything else, and it was cheaper and less time consuming to just buy the expensive hub instead of returning all the 11 speed stuff and redesigning the bike.
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