my sutherland's manual says that campy taper is the closest to suntour. i have a superbe pro crankset and until i got a superbe pro bottom bracket i used a campy athena (early 90's) cup and cone bottom bracket that worket perfectly . mike rawlings..........shillington , pa...........riding thru the winter.
> >
> >Find the English movie "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning". The opening
> >sequence features the star, Albert Finney, at his job, making BB spindles
at
> >the Raleigh factory in a huge room full of machine tools. I'm a believer.
> >Phil Brown
>
> hello,
>
> mr Brown's comments bring to mind a question about Suntour Superbe
> Cranks requiring Suntour Superbe bottom brackets (spindles)...
> reports of this necessity are to be found on the Rivendell website:
>
> " This crank requires a special spindle taper so if you can't get a
> Superbe Pro bottom bracket you must get the Phil (part number
> 12-049)." (see url ref below)
>
> am wondering if cr readers have had experience with this situation or
> have used Superbe cranks with other than Superbe or Phil spindles
> without (or bike gods forbid, with) mishap?
>
> does this need extend to all Suntour crank/spindle situations or just
> this (Rivendell catalog's) particular Superbe?
>
> and last, what would have prompted Suntour to produce a crank which
> would be thus not compatible with other square drives? or, for that
> matter a bb spindle which is *only* compatible with cranks of their
> particular manufacture?
>
> thanks for any time spared for this,
>
> dave dickerson, austin, tx
>
> (ref):
http://www.rivendellbicycles.com/