LOOK - Look at them!

It is called aesthetics.

it is visible in the pic. rigida is a different way up on each wheel.

They were just coming to terms with less spokes on the front. That is how things were done in the eighties.

it is visible in the pic. rigida is a different way up on each wheel.

Is the front wheel the wrong way round? Or maybe it's been built with the rim the other way round?

The stickers are the same direction on both side of the rim, so that's not it.

That would really set my OCD off.

Yeah :/

https://twitter.com/thejensie/status/398375256693698560/photo/1/large

Jens Voigt's LOOK Cross bike.. Never seen one of these before.

Do want.

Maybe it's this:

Hello everyone,

I've posted here a few times and have gotten some good tips. Wondering if anyone can help me out with my next question. I need to get a new bottom bracket, according to what seems to me to be a very good bike shop, but since I'm a cheapskate, I don't want to buy it from the very good bike shop. Want to buy it myself. Anyway, not sure what the details are on a bottom bracket for a KG271. Can anyone help me with figuring out what the important details might be (width, thread)? I've been trying to call Look, but they don't pick up...

Which crankset?

can you not measure and read off the details from the in-situ unit?

also, are you still running it as a horrible fixie/bmx?

Man, I'm never gonna live that down. As I said, those wheels and pedals were all I had at the time. I sold my other bike and then replaced all the shit parts with the money, see:

Campagnolo Delta rims / Miche Primato hubs
Shimano 600 pedals

Is this to the gentleman's liking? And yes, it is still a fixie. I didn't think that would be much of an issue on this of all forums. Criminy.

Anyway, can we please focus on the matter at hand Rive Gauche? The cranks are Campagnolo Chorus. I bought the frame used and it already had a Campagnolo bottom bracket in it, so I just bought the arms, which slid right on. I suppose Campagnolo spindles are all the same (except in width)? And regarding the width of the BB, yes that is something that I could figure out on my own.

It'll be english threaded 68mm, like all LOOKs as far as I know. Measure your chainline now - if it's good get a BB with the same spindle length, if not, compensate accordingly. If there's a Shimano or other JIS BB in there then remember that with a Campag or other ISO BB the cranks will sit 4.5mm further in than with JIS.

If there's a Shimano or other JIS BB in there then remember that with a Campag or other ISO BB the cranks will sit 4.5mm further in than with JIS.

Or not, as the case may be. You got 4.5mm from Sheldon, and he was wrong. It's too late to ask him how he was so wrong, and because he was right about so much else, we see his error over the difference between ISO and JIS propagated uncritically even though it has been comprehensively debunked by both measurement of the axles and many, many people's experience of actual chainline changes when substituting UN55s for ISO BBs

What are the correct findings? I've got to replace my creaking JIS BB with an ISO one and I'd be very happy to know the what the right axel length would be.

ISO axles are 2mm longer for a given chainline, assuming symmetrical axles

Grand, thanks tester.

I'm selling my XL 585 Optimum frameset if any of you LOOK lovers are interested?

Guide price of £600

Looks like a 585 to me

Whoops. Tired. Edited.

585 Optimum...£600

Keep your hands in your pockets, because people should be trying to bite them off if that's the price for the complete bike

Thank you everyone for your help.

That is a pretty incredible price. How much to have it converted to a small?

It's just the frameset folks

Yes, to clarify, that's just the frame/forks/swankyproprietaryheadset for sale. Most of the rest has already gone. But I'll throw in the 5mm conical spacer and top bung too, because I'm nice like that.

On a more serious note, I'll happily chuck in the Red ceramic BB, and the Arione, Rotundo Pro and Dorico Pro are all available if you like that kind of thing