Tag Archives: square taper

Additions to cranks page

John has added quite a bit of text to the cranks page; more about crank length, and an entirely new section on how to check for several kinds of damage; also several illustrations where there were none before.

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Bottom bracket information revised

We’ve added David Richardson’s photo of damage to a Shimano Octalink V1 crank from installing it on a V2 spindle to the bottom-bracket database. Also, we’ve coordinated bottom-bracket threading standards tables in the several files where they appear.

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Bottom-bracket spindle tapers

Photos and text have been added giving examples of different tapers, and combinations of spindle and crank that are compatible, or not. It’s here.

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Major update to cotterless crank article

John has expanded and updated the article on cotterless cranks.

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