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Scilly.Suffolk
I will be fitting 105 5800 soon and I spoke to a guy who had it on his steel pinarello.
He said that the shifting was quite noisy and rough and he believed it to be because he was using an Italian bb. Does this sound like bollox?
1mm extra on the drive side bb shell shouldn't make that much difference should it?
I am also fitting it to an Italian steel frame (haterz etc) and the bb supplied by merlin was an Ultegra 6800 one not an actual 5800 Italian bb.
Am I just worrying? You should be able to tinker the rear mech to accommodate the slightly longer shell right?
Thanks