What bottom bracket are you running?
04-30-04 | 07:04 PM
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What bottom bracket are you running?
Hi Everyone. My Steamroller's Truvativ ISIS SL bottom bracket recently started creaking. I have tried all the tricks: grease everything, threadlock everything (well, not everything...), teflon tape. The creak persists! All my options exhausted, I'm going to replace my bottom bracket. What ISIS bottom bottom bracket are you running? I'm considering a Truvativ Gigapipe Team SL or a Race Face Signature XS.
Cheers!
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05-01-04 | 06:15 AM
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Originally Posted by thumbwar
Hi Everyone. My Steamroller's Truvativ ISIS SL bottom bracket recently started creaking. I have tried all the tricks: grease everything, threadlock everything (well, not everything...), teflon tape. The creak persists! All my options exhausted, I'm going to replace my bottom bracket. What ISIS bottom bottom bracket are you running? I'm considering a Truvativ Gigapipe Team SL or a Race Face Signature XS.
Cheers!
Cheers!
fixedgearhead
05-01-04 | 08:52 AM
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I use a cheap shimano. I had annoying creaks last month and I took everything out, totally cleaned out the bb shell and regreased, installed, torqued everything... retightened chainwheel bolts... etc. but I still had the creaks. Then after an hour and a half I took the pedals out and that was it. I even put the originals back in and they are creak-free now. So the moral is, um, use a cheap shimano.
05-01-04 | 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by The Fixer
I use cheap Shimano or Campy cartridge square taper BB on my fixies.
05-02-04 | 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by trekkie820
On my new fixie, they're one piece cranks.
05-03-04 | 06:15 AM
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Originally Posted by thumbwar
Hi Everyone. My Steamroller's Truvativ ISIS SL bottom bracket recently started creaking. I have tried all the tricks: grease everything, threadlock everything (well, not everything...), teflon tape. The creak persists! All my options exhausted, I'm going to replace my bottom bracket. What ISIS bottom bottom bracket are you running? I'm considering a Truvativ Gigapipe Team SL or a Race Face Signature XS.
Cheers!
Cheers!
05-03-04 | 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Bikkhu
I let you on to a secret: ISIS sucks, it is official. Even the Truvativ engineers have admitted that the desing is a dodo. After busting 3 ISIS BB's of various pricegroups last winter, I now run a good old square taper Miche BB which has not given me any s**t so far. Forget ISIS.
I've been using a square taper on my MTB without any problems for years. Unforetunately, I don't really want to replace my cranks right now though. It looks like I'm going to go through ISIS BBs until I'm sick of replacing them. Then get new non-ISIS cranks and realize I could have saved the money spent on all those ISIS BBs by getting a non-ISIS setup long ago.
