Re: [CR]BB Length

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From: <GPVB1@cs.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:25:28 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]BB Length
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


One word Benjamin: Sutherland's Manual!

(OK, that's two actually...).

Greg "bookish" Parker Ann Arbor, MI USA
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:23:25 +0200
> From: Phil Grizic <pgrizic@haggie.co.za>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]BB Length
>
>
> I hope that someone on the list can help me. I have quite a few bikes
> mostly
> with Campy equipment - Nuovo Record, Super Record, Grand Sport, Croce
> d'Aune, and various generations of Record. I seem to sometimes have a
> problem with the BB length and the chain line. Some of the bikes run very
> smoothly but some seem to object in the lower and the higher gears. As
> these
> bikes have been built up over the years with parts that I have managed to
> acquire - I think that maybe some of the BB's are not really the rights
> ones
> for the Cranks, either too long or too short. Does anyone have a chart of
> the recommended BB lengths matching with the various Campy Cranks? Or is
> there something else that I am doing wrong.
> Any suggestions will be welcome
> Thanks
> Phil Grizic
> Durban - South Africa