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Old 10-02-16 | 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr IGH
The need for the faces to be perfectly parallel for a bottom bracket to work correctly has mostly past. If a cartridge bb is used then there's no need at all. In the case of Hollowtech II bb, there's some slop available in the nylon bushing that line the bearing and if the shell isn't too far off it'll work.
Unless you use one of those new-fangled external bearing bottom brackets.
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