Look 585 Frameset - Italian or English Thread?

ajb72
ajb72 Posts: 1,178
edited December 2010 in Workshop
I have a bike build project for a friend in the New Year which includes a Campagnolo 11 speed Athena groupset. Does anyone know if a new Look 585 frameset includes an Italian or English threaded bottom bracket? Thanks.

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  • Wooliferkins
    Wooliferkins Posts: 2,060
    LOOK are English threaded
    Neil
    Help I'm Being Oppressed
  • ajb72
    ajb72 Posts: 1,178
    Cheers Wooliferkins, are you 100% on that? Just want to be absolutely sure before going for it!
  • Bozman
    Bozman Posts: 2,518
    English! I've got one, blinding frame.
  • ajb72
    ajb72 Posts: 1,178
    Thanks chaps, much appreciated. Looking forward to the build, should make a handsome bike.
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Only Italian-built frames come with Italian threads IME - everywhere else is English, including the Italian branded stuff from Taiwan/China e.g. Colnagos and Pinarellos.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • Berk Bonebonce
    Berk Bonebonce Posts: 1,245
    Although LOOK make some of their frames, I am not sure whether this includes the 585, which I guess is made by a Chinese OEM. You could get an unpainted 585 with huge saving, see here: http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopi ... 85&start=0
  • proto
    proto Posts: 1,483
    Bozman wrote:
    English! I've got one, blinding frame.

    Me too, and I can confirm it has an English threaded BB
  • Velonutter
    Velonutter Posts: 2,437
    Yep I have a 585 English thread
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    Look 585s used to be produced at Look's own factory in Tunisia - I suppose it's possible they've moved the manufacture to the far east now but it sounds a bit unlikely.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • Bozman
    Bozman Posts: 2,518
    585 is made in Tunisia and painted in France, the lower end Look frames aren't.
  • nochekmate
    nochekmate Posts: 3,460
    Monty Dog wrote:
    Only Italian-built frames come with Italian threads IME - everywhere else is English, including the Italian branded stuff from Taiwan/China e.g. Colnagos and Pinarellos.

    The above was not true when I built up a Pinarello FP series bike about a year ago. The frame was secondhand but the BB was definitely Italian and not English
  • sub55
    sub55 Posts: 1,025
    Monty Dog wrote:
    Only Italian-built frames come with Italian threads IME - everywhere else is English, including the Italian branded stuff from Taiwan/China e.g. Colnagos and Pinarellos.

    Very sweeping statement and not necesserily true.
    I have a very nice made to measure frameset, that was made by a uk based company and so carries their branding.
    But has an italian thread bottom bracket.
    Would concede , that they are italian tubes but theres no way you could identify them as that , without knowing.
    constantly reavalueating the situation and altering the perceived parameters accordingly
  • proto
    proto Posts: 1,483
    I was very surprised that my titanium Eddy Merckx Gan team frame (possibly made by Litespeed) had an Italian BB shell.
  • Eddy S
    Eddy S Posts: 1,013
    Monty Dog wrote:
    Only Italian-built frames come with Italian threads IME - everywhere else is English, including the Italian branded stuff from Taiwan/China e.g. Colnagos and Pinarellos.
    Unsafe generalisation - my Merckx EMX-5 has an Italian BB.
    I’m a sprinter – I warmed up yesterday.
  • nochekmate
    nochekmate Posts: 3,460
    Eddy S wrote:
    Monty Dog wrote:
    Only Italian-built frames come with Italian threads IME - everywhere else is English, including the Italian branded stuff from Taiwan/China e.g. Colnagos and Pinarellos.
    Unsafe generalisation - my Merckx EMX-5 has an Italian BB.

    ...and so does my latest project - Pinarello FP4

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