Translate this bottom bracket spec
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Translate this bottom bracket spec
I just bought a Specialized Sequoia Expert and these are from the spec describing the crank set:
- FSA SL-K Light crankset, ABS Compact BB386 EVO, PF30 System Interface, 10-/11-speed, hollow, 147mm Q-factor, 110 BCD crankset
- Megatooth V2 XX1, 42T chainring
I know the crank arms are FSA SL-K Lights (carbon and seem nice). The chainring is also pretty obvious. I have no idea what the rest of that line means.
I was just in the bike shop because I mistook a bottom bracket wave washer with a bunch of dirt on it as a busted bottom bracket puking out a bunch of bearings. I was happy when they told me it was just a wave washer + dirt. I asked them about the BB spec and they told me it was threaded. I thought BB386 Evo were press in bottom brackets. I was too confused to put together a coherant question because the bike mechanic kept showing me wave washers and assuring me my bike was OK.
- FSA SL-K Light crankset, ABS Compact BB386 EVO, PF30 System Interface, 10-/11-speed, hollow, 147mm Q-factor, 110 BCD crankset
- Megatooth V2 XX1, 42T chainring
I know the crank arms are FSA SL-K Lights (carbon and seem nice). The chainring is also pretty obvious. I have no idea what the rest of that line means.
I was just in the bike shop because I mistook a bottom bracket wave washer with a bunch of dirt on it as a busted bottom bracket puking out a bunch of bearings. I was happy when they told me it was just a wave washer + dirt. I asked them about the BB spec and they told me it was threaded. I thought BB386 Evo were press in bottom brackets. I was too confused to put together a coherant question because the bike mechanic kept showing me wave washers and assuring me my bike was OK.
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BB386EVO is a standard system made to work into basically any frameset. It is the kind of clever solution that all the other post-BSA crank/BB systems should have been.
BB386EVO means this: 30mm crankset spindle. 86.5mm bearing spacing....and ends up using the same cups/bearings as PF30. Because of these properties the cranks and BB can be made to fit everything from BSA/BB30/PF30/PF86. I have an SLK BB386Evo crank/BB in my BSA gravel grinder frameset.
https://problemsolversbike.com/files..._Reference.pdf
If your frame is PF30, then it is PF30. A BB386EVO crak will work fine with it. You'll need a wave washer to supply preload.
BB386EVO means this: 30mm crankset spindle. 86.5mm bearing spacing....and ends up using the same cups/bearings as PF30. Because of these properties the cranks and BB can be made to fit everything from BSA/BB30/PF30/PF86. I have an SLK BB386Evo crank/BB in my BSA gravel grinder frameset.
https://problemsolversbike.com/files..._Reference.pdf
If your frame is PF30, then it is PF30. A BB386EVO crak will work fine with it. You'll need a wave washer to supply preload.
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Thanks - that PDF is very helpful. My understanding is the hole in my frame is complaint with the BB386 Evo spec and Specialized or the bike shop pressed PF30 cups into said hole? The exterior facing side of the PF30 cups are the threaded part then?
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What you're getting confused by, I think...is the interchangeability of the bearing cartridges themselves, as well as the interoperability of the cranks. Both PF30 and BB386EVO use the same size of bearing cartridges (46mmx30mmx7mm)--but PF30 press-fits them inside a 68mm shell...BB386EVO however is a swiss-army knife, the bearings can either be pressed in or reside in threaded cups outside spaced at 86.5mm (and with spacers the 386EVO cranks can be made to work with narrower BB30/PF30 systems)
https://www.mantel.com/blog/en/botto...-brackets/#BSA
The cups are outboard of the shell, by themselves should itself looks like this by itself:
https://www.maplegrovecycling.com/pr...t-243422-1.htm
Here's what a BB386EVO SLK crank looks like installed in a threaded shell...you can even just see the wavy-washer for bearing preload in this photo of my gravel rig:
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