73 mm was the standard, or a standard, bb shell width for mountain bikes back in the early '90s, if not at other times. Both my Stumpjumper Comp and SJ Team had 73 mm shells, and IIRC, that made no discernible difference to the Q of the cranksets of the time. I may well have inadvertently installed 73 mm bbs in 68 mm shells at one point or another, with no sign other than a few more threads sticking out on the non drive side. At any rate, 5 mm was too small a difference to notice, especially given the differences in Q caused by variation in the "flare" of the arms on different cranks.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Tony DeFilippo <[email protected]> wrote: > Also interesting about your experience with the 73mm bb, I think the full > day bikes are around 100mm which would be more noticeable. Is really like > to test ride a '17 Karate Monkey in 27.5+. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
