Stupid BB question...
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Shimano doesn't make ISIS bottom brackets.stosh said:
Shimano makes splined bottom brackets which use their proprietary "Octalink" design. ISIS is a splined design as well, but is not the same design.
ISIS is ISIS and will follow a standard. Shimano's isn't ISIS, though.
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Until this year when Truvativ did that weird splined version for the Holfellers, or whatever. I haven't studied it much, but I hope the world raises hell about SRAM trying to shove standards down our throats like they did about Shimano for doing a spline specific interface.binary visions said:
Eh? You mean their external bearing BB interface? Doesn't really have anything to do with the ISIS standard, all the companies are doing their own thing with the external bearing interfaces. Some of them are compatible but not all.loco said:
Hell, I haven't even heard a named standard for the external BB interface spline. Have you?
I don't get what the big deal is with that anyway. Bottom brackets aren't exactly long-wear items, certainly they have a shorter lifespan than the crankarms you put on them. Buy a BB to fit your cranks and be done with it.
Do people really go through a lot more crankarms than they do bottom brackets?
It seems to me it's a little like complaining that your brake pads are brand-specific (though not quite that extreme).
Do people really go through a lot more crankarms than they do bottom brackets?
It seems to me it's a little like complaining that your brake pads are brand-specific (though not quite that extreme).
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Bottom brackets don't cost much more than brake pads either.binary visions said:
I was referring to the new Howitzer BB and crank. There is a thread in DH about it.