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The bb attachment seems to be a bit of a stumbling block/mistake.
Surely it limits the appeal to people with square taper cranks and means they'll have to hold stock of a huge number of bbs to accommodate shell size and axle length?
I also can't imagine why a square taper bottom bracket with extended cups and lockrings would exist so I'm presuming they'd have had to have this proprietary part manufactured just for them?
Their target market probably is people with mid-low range hybrids and mtbs and a huge proportion of those kinds of bikes do still run square taper but still...?
I could see that steel bracket that he talks about "living on the bike" fitting in where the spacers would go if you were running a mtb ht2 bb on a 68mm shell (which coupled with square taper probably covers 99.9% of their target market) but no idea how the bracket and the forces going through it would work with the alloy cups on a ht2 bb.
Is it possible they have overlooked axle length and think that stocking 68 and 73mm wide square taper bottom brackets will cover everyone (and ht2/external bearing users can do one)?