Stupid Question, Please Help! French BB Drive side Cup - which way to loosen it?
12-13-12 | 03:11 PM
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Stupid Question, Please Help! French BB Drive side Cup - which way to loosen it?
Sorry to bother the assembled illuminati with such a mundane question, but I'd like to know, rather than damage anything!
My 'new' 1966 French Frame (already posted) has a 35 X 1 Stronglight drive side BB cup installed. I've got the right tool to remove it but I can't remember which way a French threaded drive side BB cup turns to loosen it?
Is it 'clockwise' when facing the frame from the right, like an English BB, or 'anti clockwise' like an Italian BB?
Your advice, as always will be greatly appreciated this end.................
My 'new' 1966 French Frame (already posted) has a 35 X 1 Stronglight drive side BB cup installed. I've got the right tool to remove it but I can't remember which way a French threaded drive side BB cup turns to loosen it?
Is it 'clockwise' when facing the frame from the right, like an English BB, or 'anti clockwise' like an Italian BB?
Your advice, as always will be greatly appreciated this end.................
12-13-12 | 03:29 PM
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12-13-12 | 03:30 PM
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When you get the easy side off look inside and check the threads of the opposite cup before removal...
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12-13-12 | 03:42 PM
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12-13-12 | 03:46 PM
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Not sure why people just don't do this as normal practice and recommending such does not seem to get that much attention in threads like this.....Why?...Why??......Why????!!
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12-13-12 | 03:47 PM
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Good idea! The "Easy side" is already off (came in a separate bag with the frame!) Thanks everyone.
12-13-12 | 03:53 PM
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12-13-12 | 07:30 PM
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Yep on a French bike you never know when you'll run into a Swiss thread BB. My U08 is Swiss. Same size thread as French but the fixed cup turns the opposite way.
12-13-12 | 07:52 PM
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12-13-12 | 08:12 PM
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Then again, this a French bike we're talking about.
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12-13-12 | 10:19 PM
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Well hopefully you might get lucky clean it up and look at the cup real close before trying to remove. If it is good I would leave it. French fixed cups can be a serious bear to remove and don't want to go back in correctly ounce removed a lot of the time. I guess it is just a French thing but it seems they never figured on anyone removing the drive side cup ounce it was in the frame.
12-13-12 | 10:56 PM
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I took my new-to-me Astra out for a spin last Monday. I had in mind to ride a century. Didn't get fifteen miles before the whole bike seemed to go all wobbly on me. On inspection it proved to be the fixed cup had come unfixed. Thenceforth I had to stop every mile or so, all the way home, and screw it back into the frame as far as I could. All because some previous owner (two of its previous owners are present or past forum members, so I won't name any names) had zealously overhauled the BB. So I'm with zukahn. If it ain't loose, don't loosen it.
12-14-12 | 12:00 PM
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