If you have to alter chainline.move spacer accordingly (like to the NDS to bring chain closer to frameset). Preload correct, everything should be fine. Main thing is making sure the THM sleeves are in the proper location in relation to the bearings. Maybe it's worth a try if your creaking issues persist. I personally imagine it being something like a carbon mounting paste but with a much thicker consistency and very fine friction particles in comparison to the coarse ones you get in classic carbon paste - a bit less "aggressive" if that makes sense. On their website it says that it dries up even more after assembly when being exposed to oxygen, which is supposed to help it stay in place and "harden", improving its properties.ĭon't know exactly what's in there, but it works very well on my Clavicula SE and XC cranksets. It's a very thick, lavender colored paste with an (allegedly, no numbers anywhere to find though) "very high" friction coefficient, that's supposed to prevent creaking and also work on basically any material. I personally don't use grease, but rather "Assembly Paste Pro" by Dynamic. Unfortunately there's just not much margin of error in their design. If you don't run enough spacers the crankset might also feel loose again, because you can come to a point where you can't push the cone sleeve further onto the conical section of the axle, which leads to a gap between the flange of the cone sleeve and the inner ring of the bearing, or the spacers respectively, which again leads to axial play. I'd be very interested in this width so if you could share your measurement I'd really appreciate it, since I'm also in the market for a BBInfinite BB for my future build, to which I'd want to swap over my Clavicula. Started with a lot of sound like before but then it went away a tiny bit, maybe the grease is setting.ĭid only grease drive side and outside the cone sleeve between sleeve and bearing, no grease between cone sleeve and axle.īefore removing spacers I'd definitely measure the width of your BB including bearings, since you are already basically running 2,5 mm less of spacers than the manual recommends, which makes me think that the BB you are running is quite a lot wider than the ones THM uses, as "Rides of Japan" already mentioned before. I tried zwift yesterday, nothing fell apart. Never had a spacer on drive side and the chain line is very decent for a sram 12 spd cassette so that is a good thing. But I will remove the 0.50 spacer which should make it an even better fit! That means no spacer on either side except for cone sleeve. By eye it looks like the cone sleeve is on the spot with the tooth profile interface of the axle. Have you measured the actual width of your BB? THM specs an over-bearing distance of 85,5 mm, for which the spacer recommendations in the manual are valid.Īaa alright! I will measure it. I can't exactly tell it from the pictures but is the cone sleeve protruding over the round "inner edge" of the teeth? If that's the case you'd be unable to take out the play because the cone sleeve cannot be pressed in far enough to secure the axle in the inner ring of the NDS bearing. The cone sleeve is supposed to sit flush with the end of the tooth profile of the axle. So beware that if you have a problem the after sales service and customer care is not what it should be.Looks like the BBInfinite BB is wider than the THM one. Shame really as they’re not bad wheels for the money. I decided to cut my losses, keep the wheels and try to sell them on. The upshot is that I risk losing my money and being substantially out of pocket. They want me to send the wheels back at my expense and they stipulate that they take no responsibility for loss or damage. When I finally managed to get them to understand the problem they agreed to send me the wheels I had ordered but asked me to resell their wheels and they were going to charge me!! I declined their offer and eventually they agreed to a refund given that they hadn’t actually got 23mm wheels and we’re going to get them manufactured but couldn’t tell me how long this would take. When I emailed them they eventually responded that 23mm and 25mm tyres fit all of their wheels!! They completely misunderstood the issue. I ordered the 23mm wheels as I have very limited brake clearance on my bike not an uncommon problem with TT and Tri bikes. On the face of it they looked good value and they advertised the wheels with an external rim width of either 23mm or 25mm. I ordered a set of carbon wheels for my TT/Tri bike.
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