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Quattro bottom bracket tech advice
Hello everyone! I am new to the site and am looking for advice. I just acquired a Bianchi Quattro partial bike minus bottom bracket, crankset and seat post. Made the mistake of assuming this was a Japanese model. Needless to say my English threaded BB will not be used. I am not familiar with Italian threaded specs at all. Anything I need to be aware of? Once I install the proper square tapered BB can I then use a Shimano crankset or are the cranksets also propriatory? Second, anyone know what the seat post diameter needs to be for this frame as 27.2 is too big? Finally, if you were building this up would you use stock "Quattro" branded kit or switch over to Shimano 600 Arabesque. I have the entire 600 groupset in a bin waiting to be installed on steel. Thanks in advance.