Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

Aren't Soho Bikes more mtb oriented?

In central London?

In central London?

You need a city job to be able to afford a Santa Cruz.

My charges are quite reasonable

#pray4soloairvalvespring

Excellent.

Cannondale related-ish question...is it possible to run SL cranks with a 109mm spindle in a Shimano pressfit frame (BB92?) using these or these ?

@mishmash11 Extremely unlikely.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/race-face-bb92-cinch-30mm-bottom-bracket/
Probably what you need, you might need a shed load of spacers though.

@spotter

I made this little tool to tighten up loose bottle cage threads on an old CAAD5 I used to have. It's just an old threaded rear axle cut down and a front cam type qr. The cut end of the axle is filed down square and flat. This rests against the threaded insert. The qr sits against the spacers and lock nuts at the other end. Just wind the qr into the loose insert with the qr open. Then close the qr lever tighten up the insert. It worked a treat for me.

Sorry for delay in replying back.

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No - it's extremely unlikely that the Raceface BB is what @mishmash11 needs. I'm assuming @mishmash11 wants to fit this to a road frame, as that's what the 109mm axle is for, and the RaceFace BB linked to is for MTBs which have wider shells when in BB92 flavour (91mm vs 86 for road).

On top of that, the 109mm axle is designed for a 73mm or 68mm bottom bracket shell and when used in 73mm flavour has no available horizontal slack - it is simply too short to work in a BB92 or BB386 frame.

You could, for maximum Duke points, use the MTB 137mm axle.

Yeah. You'd be limited to DM or MTB rings, and an MTB Q-factor.

And I reckon the bearing flats are in the wrong place on the axle, so you'd get some slop & other weirdness.

Work out where the bearings are going to go, TIG on some extra metal, turn down to 30.05mm

I found someone on-line who has dismantled BB30 bearings and ground down the outer race so that it will press-fit in to a BB92 shell. Which is almost, if not as, bonkers.

This might work, and It's only £140!

(actually designed for Tandems IIRC)

Almost...I'm actually spitballing the idea of fitting a SiSL crankset to a MTB with a shimano pressfit, hence the 92mm.

The crankset I'm eyeing off comes with both a 104mm and a 109mm spindle. @Howard - would a longer spindle work? Say jumping to a 122mm or a 137mm F-Si spindle?

The other side of the argument is the concern of bearing wear - squeezing tiny bearings into a PF shell using a 30mm shell would mean I'd need to double up the bearings on each side if I go with a custom solution.

In all likelihood this sort of setup seems too much to faff with, but thanks in advance for humouring me guys.

Edit: oops, just read the next page of replies - @Dammit suggested what just wrote.

@Dammit (late response here) glad to hear it's all sorted, and relieved the issue wasn't directly related to the frame/BB shell. Woohoo!

Thanks - it's hard to explain how relieved I was to have it resolved before Ride100 yesterday.

The shame of clicking my way round Surrey would have been huge.

Hope you got plenty of praise over that mint paint job!

anyone gone through removing hollowgrams without the silly cannondale tools? from what i can gather from the internet you can slam a socket extender inside the bb and just use ccp44/22

Go for it - the worst that can happen is that you ruin a £200 pair of crank arms for the saving of £16.

yeah! B)

..fukken cannondale

Its the price you pay for sexh cranks

my cranks aint sexh :/

just ordinary and creaky