Show me your BB30 Chainset

As per title
if you have a BB30 chainset your proud of, this is the place to show it off. I need ideas
cheers
if you have a BB30 chainset your proud of, this is the place to show it off. I need ideas
cheers
Crafted in Italy apparantly
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In a year i have had to have the bearings replaced after 3 months and regreased again after a further 6 months. My LBS says he gets more work servicing bb30 than any other bottom bracket.
I will steer well clear in future..
Boardman Team 2011
oh dear perhaps I should do abit more review reading
its a Cannondale frame - so quality to start with
maybe I'm just lucky amongst the how many sold around the world..?
Cboardman Team 2011
That's mine - sram standard bearings.
No noise at all - no problems (done about 1,500 miles) and unlike my previous standard BB Rival and Apex chainsets - I get no noise at all when I am out of the saddle and pushing hard - it feels like I have no flex at all (though obviously there must be some). It was a self build.
sram s975 crankset, sram bearings, 20 months of all weather riding, no creaks, no play, smooth bearings, flip the cranks and they spin 6-7 times before stopping
8 or 9 months then?
Presumably press-fitted BBs are purely a cost-saving improvement for manufacturers.
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1. Well maintained they work well. However the maintenance interval very much depends on the type of riding you do. if it's a summer "good" bike then go for it. Otherwise if it's a general do it all commuting / training / fun bike (like mine) then you'll find the service intervals will become a bit of a chore. Sadly riding home in the biblical storm we had in newcastle last thursday has meant that my BB needs to be serviced again (now 3 times in 16 months)
2. BB30 cranksets generally cost almost double their standard equivalent.
With HollowTech II Cups I've had to clean them up before winter, then after winter to keep them quiet and replaced them after 2 years.
Think I'm going for a Rotor 3D+ chainset so theres only 1 type to buy anyway £420 for cranks and Q rings from Bike24. Atleast that way, if BB30 is censored then I can get a conversion kit to threaded BB and run the same chainset still
Or is it a way of getting around the Brit / Ital threads of regular BB's? I'm not expert, but press-fit sounds a lot more universal...
Only if people subscribe to the standard, surely? If I decide to make a BB31 and go for a different diameter then...
Too right - who knows how many options we will end up with. I wait to be corrected, but I was thinking that PressFit seems to do away with the Ital/Eng thread bit - so only half as many options ultimately (at least until the next R&D meeting at SRAM/Campag/Shimano* delete as applicable