Road bike bottom bracket designs are starting to get esoteric, with world+dog using some form of external-bearing fun, and at least three incompatible new standards introduced in the last few years for putting those bearings back inside the bottom bracket: the already-abandoned Pinarello MoST, BB30, and Trek's magical Precision Fit Sockets (?!).
BMX stuff was confusing me, though. I don't read enough of the buff books, so when I started looking through catalogs and discovering "Spanish" bottom brackets a few years ago, I got confused. this is the most clarifying link I can find on the subject of current BMX BB standards, at least as far as ones that anyone is using. Please ignore anyone who mentions Overdrive.
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what ever happened to MoST? I am most concerned about Pinarello stuff... :-)
That's a good question...
The answer is, I don't know. MOst seems to have been on their 2005-ish bikes, and now they don't use that BB anymore; I think they must have retreated to a threaded Italian BB on their new bikes, but I'm not quite sure.
Confusingly, they use the MOst name for a new fork standard on their current bikes.
If I had a MOst bike, I'd get myself an adapter to use a conventional BB right quick...
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