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Went and bought some parts today.
No white brake cable outers or SS chainring bolts. Picked up a bottom bracket and 8 speed chain. Also bought shifter cables with white outers.
I guessed on the spindle width of the BB and got 113mm, same as my Bianchi. It’s too narrow. The granny gear chain ring bolts hit the frame. Thinking maybe 117mm-ish. No idea how I will measure. I dug around and came up with 4(!) 110mm BB’s AND another 113mm BB but nothing else. I’m sure I have a wider one, but don’t have the mental capacity to try and find it today. I did try Velobase and have been trying to do a visual search of my cranks on good, but it’s all over the place of what they actually are.
EDIT: I might try and install one of the 113mm ones with a couple of mm of spacers on the drive side between the cup and the frame (or the BB even not screwed all the way in) and put the cranks on. At least this way I can hopefully get a measurement of what width spindle I need. Reading online just now people have suggested using spacers from old cassettes, so I might try that. Note: This is purely to figure out what length spindle BB to buy. I’m not comfortable running a cartridge BB with spacers. Even a few mm.
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