Originally Posted by unterhausen

I'm getting pretty good at bending the sockets on oval bb shells. The first one took forever because I was being gentle with it. They really bend pretty easily with a heavy-duty chain stay.

If I were going with round chain stays, I probably would go with the RH shell. And also their pre-bent stays.

I was playing with bikecad and it left me dissatisfied. Looked like I would have to go with longer chain stays than I want for 700c 2.2" and I'm not going with 650b because I have plenty of nice 700c wheels already. But the bikecad stays might be bigger than the ones I'm going to use. I guess I have to go back to the mock up.