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I LOVE Shimano external BB's and cranks. For function, they can't be beat. Basically essential equipment for mountain bikes for me, although ISIS was pretty good. I run 'em on my mountain bikes, cyclocross bike and my wife has one on her roadie for the compact chainrings. Mine look good on their bikes cause they're modern; hers are on a 80's Marinoni and they're shiny shiver Tiagara so they're passable.
The bearings don't last as long as most internal styles. I don't ride road hard enough to worry about the benifits of lighter, stiffer, faster so I stick with the vintage kit, including the BB/crankset. 7402 works for me. |
Originally Posted by devinfan
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Im sure new bikes ride great. I wouldn't know because I have never ridden one, and have no interest in doing so. I just look at them and for me it's like looking at a refrigerator: no reaction at all. Show me an old frame with faded decals, tubulars and ratty cloth tape and that's another story. Whatever floats your boat, in the end. There's nothing morally superior about old bikes, I just like them better.
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Swap the rings to polished, and you'll be just fine.
Originally Posted by icepick_trotsky
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The crankset in question. I wouldn't call it pretty, but I've seen uglier.
http://www.cambriabike.com/images/pr..._silver_04.jpg |
+1 I have had great success with the ISIS and the Octalink version of FSA cranksets, and they can come amazingly cheap, even on the eek!bay.
Not only that, the best crankset I've ever had, and the lightest, was ISIS, a Stronglight Pulsion. The "newer" version requires a proprietary bottom bracket, which is just another example of a french firm shooting itself in the foot. I do count weight on my modern bikes, and one Pulsion, with an Omni bottom bracket, was 505g total. The other, with a Deda bottom bracket, was 502g. Extremely stiff crankset, extremely smooth. I like the FSA Gossamer, coming in both silver and black. Ritchey used to do that with an Octalink version, as well. If you go square taper and want a reasonable crankset for it, the FSA Vero is not bad at all.
Originally Posted by OldsCOOL
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I went with a splined ISIS (not a terrorist) cartridge style BB unit on my Cannondale. Really enjoyed the simplicity of plug-n-play and very cheap. This is the final outcome:
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h8...6212E9BA10.jpg I would NOT go with anything BB30. |
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I am so done with black. On my latest bike I wanted 46/30 chainrings, and polished, so wound up with square taper TA Carmina cranks and SKF bottom bracket. Definitely heavier, but also durable. And soooo pretty!
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=489654 |
Does anyone know where I can get an external bearing bb, English thread, for cottered arms?
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Ha!
I just pulled the cottered cranks off my Jeunet last night. That's old tech I'm happy to update. |
Originally Posted by rhm
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Does anyone know where I can get an external bearing bb, English thread, for cottered arms?
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Originally Posted by catgita
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I am so done with black. On my latest bike I wanted 46/30 chainrings, and polished, so wound up with square taper TA Carmina cranks and SKF bottom bracket. Definitely heavier, but also durable. And soooo pretty!
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=489654 http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h8...E151A8E64B.jpg |
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