For those interested, I've snapped a photo of my Pino cartridge BB and it can be seen here:
http://www.fooriders.com/
Here's a photo of it installed in the bike. Note the especially thinned shell, visible at the clover cutout. This frame has been lightened considerably.
http://www.fooriders.com/
The lightening treatment also includes a drillium steerer tube, seen here:
http://www.fooriders.com/
Tam Pham Huntington Beach, CA - USA
On 8/20/06, John Barron <jb@velostuf.com> wrote:
>
> Tam-
>
> How did you deal with the threading requirements for the Pino BB?
>
> His BB's are somewhat difficult to deal with because the threading in the
> frame's BB shell must be continous from one end to the other. Most BB shells
> are are threaded for 2 separate cups.
>
> Do tell!
>
> Thanks
>
> John Barron
> Minneapolis MN
>
> Tam wrote-
>
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:25:08 -0700
> From: "Tam Pham" <terminaut@gmail.com>
> To: "Classic Rendezvous" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Subject: [CR]Pino Morroni BB in action...
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> I was working on one of my project bikes today and noticed that the Pino
> Morroni bottom bracket is exceptionally smooth. I haven't done any
> maintenance on the BB since taking ownership of it, and after witnessing
> how
> freely it spins I can see why Pino went through the trouble of designing
> his
> own cartridge system. Anyways, for those who might be bored and have
> bandwidth to download a 2MB video, check out my 40-second clip at:
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> http://www.fooriders.com/
>
> Cheers,
> Tam Pham
> Huntington Beach, CA - USA