Number 2? I didn't think the first run of these had the issues that the later ones seemed to have.
I'd just be buying an English thread outboard BB (IIRC the early ones were 68mm for 24mm axles or cartridge BBs, could be wrong though) and be trying to install it. Bike shops can fuck things up to a hilarious degree too.
So it turns out the BB shell just needed cleaning up, LBS have chased it and installed the BB no problem. I think the guy I asked previously didn't want to look at it and jumped to the conclusion of it being backwards which is pretty crazy.
Number 2? I didn't think the first run of these had the issues that the later ones seemed to have.
I'd just be buying an English thread outboard BB (IIRC the early ones were 68mm for 24mm axles or cartridge BBs, could be wrong though) and be trying to install it. Bike shops can fuck things up to a hilarious degree too.