Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:51:11 EST From: IPMerkin@aol.com To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Victory BB spindle length? (IP Merkin)
I have a Victory double crankset that I want to install on an old Italian frame, but need help to get the bottom bracket spindle length. I've heard 109 (and was fixing to buy a NOS square taper Shimano with 110), but then saw a Victory BB (English) on ebay that claimed a spindle length of 112. Can someone tell me for certain? If I have to end up using something modern like a UN-52, is there a taper different that I need to take into account? Apologies in advance if I'm skirting the timeline a bit too closely.
Thanks in advance.
IP
Providence, RI
IPM:
A Victory triple spindle is 112 mm (for BSC or French; 113 for Italian), double is 109 (for all threading types). The Victory triple spindle is the same length as a Triomphe double spindle.
Campagnolo post-NR/SR loose-ball Bottom brackets are near-ridiculously complex, unfortunately.... My 5th Edition Sutherland's (1990) lists 38 of them!
Add all of R/NR/SR/GS, which was complicated by the 1977-78 CPSC-mandated changes, and you've got about 65 different BB spindles....
Regards,
Greg Parker
Dexter, Michigan