Isis woes

Gavin Gilbert

I've lunched the 2nd Isis BB on my #2 road ride after just 3,000 miles. Not impressed. Doubly not impressed as I distinctly remember asking the bloke on the bike shop about the reputation of these things when I was buying his OEM chainset.

Other than upgrading to a Chorus chainset and Campag BB as they are now being sold cheap, what are my options? Is there any Isis model that is worth trying?

nicklouse

have a look at the SKF ISIS bb as that is the only one that will last.

10 year warranty or something like that.

normal ISIS are poor.

craigenty

I went through a right palaver trying to source one of those SKF ISIS bottom brackets.

I swapped about 30 e-mails with a rep from SKF and almost got to the point of her sending me one for free just to shut me up.

Then she e-mailed to say PACE were now stocking them so I e-mailed them and they do have some but they are about 79 quid.

In the end I bough a standard FSA one for 16 quid from a LBS. It might only last me for this summer but I can buy another 3 for the rest of the 79 quid.

One thing is certain, the FSA BB will out live the Stronglight Vulcan Carbon chainset which I bought it for. I've broken 3 in the last 2 years.

giant_man

Gavin Gilbert wrote:

I've lunched the 2nd Isis BB on my #2 road ride after just 3,000 miles. Not impressed. Doubly not impressed as I distinctly remember asking the bloke on the bike shop about the reputation of these things when I was buying his OEM chainset.

Other than upgrading to a Chorus chainset and Campag BB as they are now being sold cheap, what are my options? Is there any Isis model that is worth trying?

Chorus chainset and BB going cheap? Please tell me more ....

jpembroke

High On Bikes have 06 Chorus chainsets for £39.95. You can get the BB for about the same price from most places.

jpembroke

Mind you, from what I've read, I'm not sure that Chorus/Record BBs last that long either. Don't seem to be very highly rated on Roadbikereview.com.