English or French BBs tapped to Italian will still be 68mm wide though, where one that was Ital from day1 will normally be 70. What's the frequency, Kenneth? Er I mean what's the Paramount BB width, Tom? (asking Tom Hayes, the seller)
Mark Bulgier Seattle WA USA
Thomas Adams wrote:
> An italian BB on a Paramount? Very strange indeed. I'd
> suspect a replaced BB, but that would be hard to do on a
> chrome bike without showing marks. Or, perhaps the threads
> were severly damaged, and someone ground out the damaged
> threads and then retapped to Italian. I've vaugely heard of
> this being possible for a reapair, but never have seen it done.
And Chuck Schmidt added:
> I've got a 40+ year old high end French bike that had its
> French BB shell retapped out to Italian at some point [...]