Comments on: Velo Orange has a Threadless Bottom Bracket

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:12:11 +0000

Great. Had the threads on a much loved frame go through about 6 months ago. Built a new bike on a similiar frame but couldn’t bring myself to throw out the old one. Now I can save it.

By: Ghost Rider

Ghost Rider — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:27:35 +0000

This is a FAR more elegant solution than the old Mavic BBs that required the installing shop to have a special chamfering tool for the lips of the stripped BB shell — and most shops didn’t.

Sure, you can rethread a stripped English BB to be Italian, but if you stripped an Italian shell, you were dead in the water without that special tool. Velo Orange SAVES THE DAY once more!!

By: Marrock

Marrock — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:42:58 +0000

Just the thing for my old Moto.

No one in the area can recut the threads in the BB so I can update it’s innards so this will be an ideal solution

By: Robert Alverson

Robert Alverson — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:27:59 +0000

I think this will be used more by folks looking to replace a non-english threaded bb than those who have a stripped bb. Most of the folks who have a totaled bb in my area are riding a dept. store bike, and $60 is half the cost of a whole new bike for them. All the same, if it works well it will be pretty handy to have a few rolling around the shop.

By: Paul in Minneapolis

Paul in Minneapolis — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:12:50 +0000

Thanks, one day I may need it… But for now I try to pull out my bottom brackets, seat post, threaded stems and other prats ever month, then aply freash grease…
I learnt that after leaving the bottom bracket in the LHT untouched for three years, includeing winter commuting…

Also, I still pull frames out of trash piles, so that may come in handy even sooner…

Bring us MORE to keep our bikes going!!!