My guess is that it probably wants a bb spindle of typical Campy taper that is just like the Campy pista spindle which at the end of production would have been a 109mm symetric. Good news is that there are many Campy loose ball bb's for modern cranks that were either 109mm or 111mm symetric. So any campy bb for a typical double from the early 1990's for instance will work. There are tons of these bb's out there - the best of which is probably the Campy Chorus loose ball. Really the same quality as Campy NR but with tick wall cups. I don't think the 111 vs 109 will matter much.
Just be certain to get the 68 vs 70 correct and that you don't mix cups/spindles for thin vs. thick cups together. It is easy to score thick cups and then get a spindle for thin ones or vice versa and then be left with something that doesn't work.
Mike Kone
Boulder, CO
> I recently have gotten back into riding my track bike around and want to change
\r?\n> the crank on it. It is a low-end Orbit (reynolds 500/531 fork) from about
\r?\n> 1991, with a low end Stronglight crank and BB.
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\r?\n> I have a nice Sugino Mighty Competition track crank (on-topic I think) that I
\r?\n> want to put on it, but need to find a suitable BB. I don't know what length I
\r?\n> would need for the spindle. I suspect it is similar to what a NR pista would
\r?\n> have used (the cranks look similar), but I am not certain. I did a search of
\r?\n> the archives with no clear results.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Would a NR bb work?
\r?\n> What lenght spindle (for a BSC 68 mm bb) would an NR have used?
\r?\n> If I buy a more mondern BB, does it have to be track specific, and what length
\r?\n> BB should I be looking for? I really want to use a classic cup/cone BB, the
\r?\n> cartridges just don't look right to me.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Any hints are welcome.
\r?\n> Thanks,
\r?\n> Dan Kasha
\r?\n> Seattle, Wa
\r?\n> PS Mercer Island loop is really fun on a track bike.
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