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there is a work around, you just need a different length bb.
most cranks have JIS square taper e.g. shimano, which is a japanese standard, a few (such as the miche) have ISO taper, which is the international standard. you can interchange them but it makes things more complex (check sheldon brown for more).
the standard-ish track frame chainline is 42, so you would expect most cranks and bb to give 42mm chainline. which they annoyingly don't. I believe the miche with a 107mm ISO bb give a 42 mm chainline. i think goldtech hubs give a 46.5mm chainline (someone correct me on this?), so you would need a 111/112mm ISO bb, or you could just get a 107mm ISO bb and use 4mm of chainring spacers. i personally would do this, as then in future if you get a different hub with a more normal chainline you are fine, and cheap ISO bb's are hard to find (sugino 75 are ISO but i don't know what lengths they come in). though i am not sure whether 4mm of chainring spacers is acceptable, i can't see why not but someone else may want to correct me.