Yes, I’m a bit worried about the bearings. I tried a normal 24mm rotor bb years ago and it lasted 10 minutes, so don’t really like the thought of one with smaller bearings, nor do I like the thought of spending £100 on a bottom bracket.
I’d be interested if you have a job lot of bsa30 bbs sitting around that you’d offload at less than new prices!
Really I want a 3d24 but they’re impossible to find (bit of a story - I have a 3d24 with q-rings and a pm Ive swapped between bikes for maybe 12 years. I’m tired of swapping, and don’t care about the pm so much, but still want q-rings. I’ve tried q-rings on a non rotor crank and the shifting was crap so inclined to stick with rotor. However you just can’t get a 3d24, but 3d30s are readily available)
Could you buy a basic one and the tool to swap the bearings out? Means you have bearing replacement capability and you can replace with a decent bearing when you need to. I run a BSA30 and only the NDS ever needs replacing so my Amazon bearing tool has come in very handy.
The frame is 24mm screw in, so bearing replacement is trivial. The problem is that I can’t find a rotor 24mm crank - but there are lots of rotor 30mm cranks on eBay. However I’d need bsa30 bearings - easy to fit, but expensive and probably less reliable.
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Yes, I’m a bit worried about the bearings. I tried a normal 24mm rotor bb years ago and it lasted 10 minutes, so don’t really like the thought of one with smaller bearings, nor do I like the thought of spending £100 on a bottom bracket.
I’d be interested if you have a job lot of bsa30 bbs sitting around that you’d offload at less than new prices!
Really I want a 3d24 but they’re impossible to find (bit of a story - I have a 3d24 with q-rings and a pm Ive swapped between bikes for maybe 12 years. I’m tired of swapping, and don’t care about the pm so much, but still want q-rings. I’ve tried q-rings on a non rotor crank and the shifting was crap so inclined to stick with rotor. However you just can’t get a 3d24, but 3d30s are readily available)