Square-Taper has been around decades longer than Octalink. I guess it's been thrown onto the scrap heap along with rim brakes, quill stems and friction shifters: a bad idea that never did work.
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Roasted
Yeah, I get it. I was just curious as to how applicable it would be for my bike (or any bike) in particular. Like I said, I just wasn't sure with size measurings how it lined up and whether or not my idea for a future crank/bb upgrade to be Hollowtech II was impossible or not.
Any obvious way to tell which size my bike may have between 68 and 73mm? Are they the two standard Hollowtech II sizes?
Shouldn't be a problem at all. You might want to take the bike to a shop and get the BB faced to insure the faces are parallel. You're bike is pretty new so it probably isn't an issue, but worth it to make sure. Those external bearings don't like being misaligned one little bit.