What bottom bracket thread?

Posted on Wed 3rd, February 2010

• #1

Chris_Borneo

Bought a new road bike recently and the farme has a Cinelli bottom bracket shell. One side is a left hand thread, one side is right hand and the shell is 68mm wide. Would this be an ISO/British bottom bracket? I though Cinelli would use Italian? Did they use ISO? Frame is a 1992 Cia Battino.
• #2

GA2G

Sheldon
• #3

GA2G

is
• #4

GA2G

your
• #5

GA2G

friend.
• #6

fruitbat

68mm shell, one left, one right, 1992, I'll eat my shorts if it's not British
• #7

Sherms

Italian are almost exclusively 70mm.
• #8

Chris_Borneo

Cheers guys. I thought it would be but I couldn't find anything on the net to say Cinelli did ISO/British threaded shells and with them being Italian, I thought maybe I'd missed something. Guess not.

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