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[Closed] HT 2 Question

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Do the plastic spacers come with the chainset or bottom bracket.
And although there are Tiagra, 105, Ultegra and many more variations are they basically the same?

I was about to buy a CX50 chainset and a non Shimano bottom bracket.


 
Posted : 29/07/2012 6:17 pm
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spacers with BB

no idea re the rest as still square taper on my roadie bike


 
Posted : 29/07/2012 6:20 pm
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All Shimano road cups are interchangable. But they don't come with spacers as you don't use them on a road bike.


 
Posted : 29/07/2012 6:58 pm
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And the Shimano road cups are wider than MTB ones(about 1.5mm if I remember correctly), so technically not a straight swap.


 
Posted : 30/07/2012 7:25 am
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Non-Shimano BB will be ok as long as its not GXP, and FSA can be a bit of a minefield!


 
Posted : 30/07/2012 7:27 am
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AS above had problems with FSA BB on shimano cranks,

now running a Pace BB with spacers on a surly pacer frame with Ultegra chainset.


 
Posted : 30/07/2012 7:36 am

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