Thrilled with my new bike

Solanog

Are there any spacers or something for adjusting this?

Camilo

I always enjoy bike porn. What would REALLY be great bike porn is if you posted side by side pix of our old Kestrel with the new one.

S4one

Sweet bike

sideshow_bob

Can't you put a spacer between the cup and the bb shell?

--brett

rplace13

For anyone wanting to see the old guy put out to pasture here ya go. Early 90s Kestrel 200sc with a mix of C-Record and DuraAce. I know that is not cool, but Campy just did not have the indexed shifting figured out in those early years.

For its day it was quite light around 18 pounds (depending on wheels) pictured with 32 hole hubs front and rear laced radial in the front and 2X in the back DT double butted spokes and alloy niples. Campy Crono tublar rims. I still love the wheel set...wish I could find a way to run them on the new ride...but with an actual freewheel they are a bit dated.

Still a great bike and to date my all time favorite. Lots of crits and road races on that guy. I feel bad not riding it.

Any homebrewers out there...that is my grain mill in the background with the "V" on it.

Peter@vecchios

You can put a spacer under the right cup BUT outboard bearing setups are very susceptable to irregularities in BB width. Campag has a nice system of a wavy washer in the left cup that accomodates narrow BB shells but if it's wide, AND you add a spacer, it may make the bearings bind. This is really going to be a problem if BBs go to the BB30 'system', where there is NO way to move the chainrings out. You are just gonna have to 'trust' the frame maker. We have built a couple of bikes using a famous Belgium frame that has had the small ring be very close to and on one, hit the stay.

alfeng

FWIW. To state what will seem all-too-obvious-in-retrospect, you can simply have the rim (or, equivalent) re-laced onto the contemporary rear hub of your choice ... that's what I finally did to update a couple of my wheelsets at-the-turn-of-the-Century.

AFAIK, Campy rims are made by Ambrosio, so if a cosmetic match isn't mandatory, you can just pick up an(y) older Ambrosio tubular rim (obviously, there were several models which had different weights-per-rim) & lace it onto a contemporary rear hub.

alfeng

FWIW. In an earlier thread, I think I mentioned that I chose the bottom bracket intended for a TRIPLE when I mounted a standard ROAD DOUBLE on a MTB frame (i.e., a 118mm ISIS instead of a 113mm ISIS that would be used on a typical ROAD frame) ...

So, the comparable work-around would be to spec a "triple" crankset (if available) but not mount the granny ...

Of course, the Q-factor would be affected by 2.5mm on each side ... THAT isn't an problem for me, but may be for some.

Obviously, that isn't an option for people who want to use a 110BCD "compact" crankset.