Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

Which hose?

Also, I have an XT crank on the 529. Keep looking at EE Wings, but my god are they a lot of money. Need 165 also.

30mm axles and bsa threaded bb’s really isn’t a great combo. You’re much better off sticking to cranks with 24mm axles

My wallet thanks you

There were rumblings a while back of a peasant-spec steel version using 24mm axle

I would be up for some plebeian 24mm steel EE Wings.

Do Sturdy Cycles sell their 3d printed Ti cranks separately from their framesets?

30mm axles and bsa threaded bb’s really isn’t a great combo.

Strongly disagree.

You’d best let Shimano and Sram know they’ve got it wrong.

It’s no coincidence that the Sram Dub downsized layout coincided with a resurgence in popularity of threaded bb shells.

Isn’t dub 29mm?

I've got threaded bb on my current road bike with 30mm spindle. It's the only road BB I've ever worn out and I did it in a year. Campag, shimano, done thousands of kms with threaded external BBs on 24/25mm axles no issues.

Sample size of one pretty much makes my experiences meaningless but will see how long the second BB lasts.

As for mtb - never found Sram BBs great even on threaded 24mm stuff and never used a 30mm/threaded bb combo but I'd rather stick to shimano.

Yep, smallest they could go whilst keeping the alloy axle

Right but if they’re discontinuing 24/22mm axles, they must think the bearings are a non issue.
Or at least worth the compromise for the sake of weight (and manufacturing cost and ease of a single axle standard vs 2)

Hope threaded 30mm BSA BB is awesome. I've used three on various bikes and cranks with no problems whatsoever.

don’t think gxp with it’s 24/22mm steel axle is going anywhere. It was always positioned as a heavier, more affordable option to their 30mm offerings. They’ll probably just limit gxp crank options to entry and mid-level options.

Dub is replacement for their 30mm axle cranks moving forward. Any of their more recent premium cranks are only offered with dub axles. They can just get away with just carrying a handful of 30mm bb’s to support the 30mm cranks already in the marketplace

Keep looking at EE Wings

Yeah I'd like a pair too but cant spend a grand on cranks. There was a set on pinkbike last year for about 600 but even that is way too much.

I didn't know there was talk of a steel version. But that kinda loses the appeal.
The Ti ones weigh the same(400g I think) as my carbon xx1 cranks but I feel like the xx1 cranks are going to snap at any moment.
A steel version would just be a 3 piece bmx crankset and probably weigh the same.

30mm axles and bsa threaded bb’s really isn’t a great combo

Really? I run 30mm bsa raceface cranks and bb, same set up for 18 months and no issues with premature wear or any other problem.

You’d best let Shimano and Sram know they’ve got it wrong.

I'd rather congratulate Rotor on having got it right with BSA30, which I've found extremely durable and robust.

It’s my pleasure to announce Cherubim of Japan are making MTB frames now

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMCW903F7mg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Seems they didn’t get the progressive geo memo

It’s not often that you get toe overlap on a modern MTB

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I saw the install video of these, pls document how painful/easy it is

Video makes it look pretty simple- hammer out pin, hammer in pin.

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Upper rocker bearings all swapped out, cracking noise banished, new rear swingarm/rocker bolts installed per Pace's advice (but I'm going to have these remade, more on that later).

Per advice in the Lets Offroad thread I fitted Uber-Bike pads, and post bedding in they're performing very well in the "controlled, seated stoppie down the hill I live on" test.

Oh, and XTR cranks installed to achieve matchy-matchy.