If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

BB30 -> Hollowtech 2

godtabh · 2017-10-01 09:27:13

Looking at a CAAD 12. Comes with the Cannondale SLi crankset. Would rather keep my ultegra 6800 crankset. Googling suggests I can get an adaptor but creaking maybe a big issue. Assuming I go to a knowledgeable bike shop to get the work done is this really an issue? Are their other ways of doing this?

Options

01-10-2017 10:27am

#1

godtabh

Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2005

Posts: 21028

Looking at a CAAD 12. Comes with the Cannondale SLi crankset.

Would rather keep my ultegra 6800 crankset. Googling suggests I can get an adaptor but creaking maybe a big issue.

Assuming I go to a knowledgeable bike shop to get the work done is this really an issue?

Are their other ways of doing this?

0

Comments

Options
#2 01-10-2017 11:30am
StevieGriff

Registered Users Posts: 859 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2009

Posts: 827

godtabh wrote: »

Looking at a CAAD 12. Comes with the Cannondale SLi crankset.

Would rather keep my ultegra 6800 crankset. Googling suggests I can get an adaptor but creaking maybe a big issue.

Assuming I go to a knowledgeable bike shop to get the work done is this really an issue?

Are their other ways of doing this?

I use the WMFG Spindle Shims and they creak like mad, occasionally they even squel in the heat. They got me out of a pinch though. Waiting for the bearings to die before putting in a one of their complete BB units, they are around €70 but a few club mates are using them to good success.

0
Options
#3 01-10-2017 11:33am
godtabh

Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2005

Posts: 21028

StevieGriff wrote: »

I use the WMFG Spindle Shims and they creak like mad, occasionally they even squel in the heat. They got me out of a pinch though. Waiting for the bearings to die before putting in a one of their complete BB units, they are around €70 but a few club mates are using them to good success.

That's the kind of thing I'm reading online. Totally putting me off but getting a good deal on a decent spec

0
Options
#4 01-10-2017 11:42am
StevieGriff

Registered Users Posts: 859 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2009

Posts: 827

godtabh wrote: »

That's the kind of thing I'm reading online. Totally putting me off but getting a good deal on a decent spec

At first I'd strip off the cranks and grease the shims and contact points and that would keep the noise at bay for a few weeks but after a while I've learned to just live the noise. It's usually to bloody windy to hear anyway.

0
Options
#5 01-10-2017 12:12pm
CheGuedara

Registered Users Posts: 2,031 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2008

Posts: 1971

BB infinite do a solution that they say is creak free but the price makes it an 'investment' bottom bracket - https://www.bbinfinite.com/products/bb30-directfit-shimano

0
Options
#6 01-10-2017 1:29pm
nilhg

Registered Users Posts: 5,145 ✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2001

Posts: 4990

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Wheels-MFG-Bottom-bracket-BB30-on-Shimano-Cranks-24mm-Adapter-storage/152288950584?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

That one is standard bearings but you can find versions with angular contact or ceramic

I have one in my Felt for the last 2 seasons, bearings were starting to complain so I put another in last week, reckon it had about 15k done.

0
Advertisement
Options
#7 01-10-2017 2:14pm
joey100

Registered Users Posts: 3,425 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2005

Posts: 3236

I used these with the BB that came in my supersix and worked no bother. On a different bike I got a converted BB and it does nothing but creak, put in by a bike shop too.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/wheels-manufacturing-bb30-to-24mm-crank-spindle-shims/

That one is handy, rubber mallet it into the existing BB.

0
Options
#8 01-10-2017 3:46pm
markie379

Registered Users Posts: 255 ✭✭

Join Date: July 2009

Posts: 222

+1 I have these on a CAADX and the y work very well . No creaking.

quote="joey100;104842150"]I used these with the BB that came in my supersix and worked no bother. On a different bike I got a converted BB and it does nothing but creak, put in by a bike shop too.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/wheels-manufacturing-bb30-to-24mm-crank-spindle-shims/

That one is handy, rubber mallet it into the existing BB.[/quote]

0
Options
#9 01-10-2017 3:49pm
Plastik

Registered Users Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2007

Posts: 2865

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=104211207 I have the cups for sale cheaper than new if you're looking to go down that road. They were on a used frame that I bought. I never used them but the seller said he never had trouble with creaking.

0
Options
#10 01-10-2017 5:31pm
godtabh

Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2005

Posts: 21028

Plastik wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=104211207 I have the cups for sale cheaper than new if you're looking to go down that road. They were on a used frame that I bought. I never used them but the seller said he never had trouble with creaking.

I might come back to you on that if i do buy it

0
Options
#11 01-10-2017 6:20pm
Alanbt

Registered Users Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2014

Posts: 1016

I got a BB from C bear to run Shimano hollowtech on BB30a frameset.
Not cheap but it's definitely quality
https://www.c-bear.com/en/products/bb30

0
Advertisement
Options
#12 01-10-2017 7:18pm
jayjbe

Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭

Join Date: June 2010

Posts: 401

I used one of these on a Supersix.
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/ie/en/sram-pressfit-30-to-bsa-adaptor-kit/rp-prod71306

0
Options
#13 02-10-2017 4:35pm
Borderfox

Registered Users Posts: 10,260 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2001

Posts: 9761

I have one of the Rotor 30-24 bb's and even with a load of copper grease it creaks like a banshee. Rebuilding my winter bike at the moment and looking forward to the peace

0
Options
#14 02-10-2017 4:40pm
thekooman

Registered Users Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2005

Posts: 1072

markie379 wrote: »

+1 I have these on a CAADX and the y work very well . No creaking.

quote="joey100;104842150"]I used these with the BB that came in my supersix and worked no bother. On a different bike I got a converted BB and it does nothing but creak, put in by a bike shop too.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/wheels-manufacturing-bb30-to-24mm-crank-spindle-shims/

That one is handy, rubber mallet it into the existing BB.

[/QUOTE]

+2. use a 52 36 on a Caadx and no creaking. but when i had a 46 36 CX chainset on it before it used to creak like crazy. stupid BB30

0
Options
#15 02-10-2017 5:02pm
Luxman

Registered Users Posts: 937 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2015

Posts: 849

Am I mad to swap out a functioning (but noisy) BB on a Spesh Roubaix for a Wheels Mfg BB?

0
Options
#16 02-10-2017 5:06pm
Borderfox

Registered Users Posts: 10,260 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2001

Posts: 9761

Luxman wrote: »

Am I mad to swap out a functioning (but noisy) BB on a Spesh Roubaix for a Wheels Mfg BB?

Soon as the winter bike is done (hopefully this week) I will be changing mine, have you got a link to that Wheels Mfg one?

0
Options
#17 02-10-2017 5:40pm
Luxman

Registered Users Posts: 937 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2015

Posts: 849

Nope, spoke to Base2race mechanic and he recommended it. Planning on doing it this week. Not sure the old one is still usable though after its taken out. If it is I will keep it as a spare. I likey my silence

0
Options
#18 02-10-2017 5:42pm
Borderfox

Registered Users Posts: 10,260 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2001

Posts: 9761

the rotor one was handy to install, I had the same guy in Base2race remove the Praxis one that was in it

0
Options
#19 02-10-2017 8:55pm
not sane

Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭

Join Date: March 2010

Posts: 111

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/fsa-bb30-threaded-adapter-b3119-/rp-prod129935

Worked for me

0
Options
#20 03-10-2017 5:31pm
crosswords

Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭

Join Date: September 2011

Posts: 232

Look at praxisworks BBs. They do a range of convertor bottom brackets. I got mine in greenbikes Newry. No creaking. Very solid.

0