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    Thanks a lot! That answers my first question about the chainline. What makes matters more complicated is the fact that the bike in question has a french threaded stronglight 118mm iso bb in it. Since the starfish is designed for iso, I could temporarily run it with 3mm spacers between the spiderarm and the chainring. In the long run, I'd like to run the cranks without spacers which means I have a couple options on which I need some forum expertise:

    1. Getting the BB refaced to BSA or ITA threading. I read somewhere that it's possible to get it refaced to one of the more common threading types, don't remember which one it was atm.
    2. Replace the spindle with a shorter one. I figure it would be really difficult to find one that checks all the boxes.
    3. Get one of the velo orange bb's. They are jis tapered but according to sheldon it's unproblematic to put an iso crank on a jis taper. The only difference is that it sits 1-2mm further out. Which means I would probably have to go for the 107mm jis version.

    Any input and advise is appreciated :)

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    Thanks for the info! @thross kindly donated a campagnolo 11o mm spindle & the bearings from a bsa bb and I'll see whether I can get it to work with the stronglight cups that are currently in the frame. BB width for french and bsa is 68mm and the stronglight competition is a campa copy according to velobase so I'm fairly optimistic. Although I don't want to get my hopes up too high cause sheldon says mixing spindles and cups from different brands and models is usually not advisable. I also read that the thickness of the bb cups varies across brands so we'll see. If it doesn't work, I might get a mavic bb from here but I'll try the hack-way first. Thanks to everyone for the input, another reminder why this is such a great forum!

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