nlouthan wrote:That is super!!
Can you elaborate on the installation of the bottom bracket? The BBinfinite instructions say to not use a wavy washer and to use threadlocker on the bearing races before installing the crank. I'm not too sure about either of those.
I'm getting ready to buy an R3 and am debating between this BB and the press in Campagnolo ones (with appropriate locking compound).
Do the BBinfinite shell. I'm serious. My Campagnolo cups walked around like crazy, regardless of what loctite compound I tried. When researching I found I wasn't the only Cervelo owner with this issue. The BBinfinite shell is like 70g heavier, but for silence, I'd sacrifice a lot more weight.
I was a little skeptical on the install too. So you use the supplied blue loctite (sorry don't remember the loctite #) between the bb shell and bb itself. Then you use green loctite between the bearing races and the bb. The green loctite is really mild, it by no means fixes the bearings in there. It just keeps the smaller movements from happening. In fact, the other day I pulled the crankset out to see how everything was doing after 1,000 miles (my cranks have like 10,000 on them) and the bearings came out with a light nudge by hand on the back of the crank arm.
I actually called BBinfinite during my install to make sure of a few things (it's nerve wracking to be forcefully slamming the thing into a brand new $5,000 frame) and they were very helpful and actually made some revisions to the instructions based on things I was unclear on after reading them. (They didn't actually change anything just emphasized some points that were in there that I missed). Which was really cool I thought. They're pretty new, I don't think there are many of the BBrright-UT shells out there.
Overall very, very pleased. Cranks spin way faster than they did in the campy cups (with same bearings) and are free of play, not a peep to speak of yet.. They did a great job engineering the piece.
