If You Don't Have a BB Ream You Can Do it Like This

If You Don't Have a BB Ream You Can Do it Like This

December 28, 2022

 

More art than science, this method requires patience and good judgement. If you take off too much material, it'll complicate your life. So, take your time.

 

This is a piece of -uh this is one and a quarter PVC pipe with some sandpaper- some 220-grit sandpaper. What we're doing is, this bottom bracket is too tight, alright. this is 41mm and I'm using it right now. I can tell you this bottom bracket -this, this shell is too tight. Now this is more of an art than a science, but what we're trying to do is we're trying to remove the material evenly. We're not going to do this- okay, alright I'm going to try to all right we're trying to do this evenly like I said this is more art than science because obviously if you go too big that's a serious problem we don't want to do that all right and what we're gonna do is we're using we're using the bottom bracket as a gauge okay I'm seeing how it fits in there all right there you go I just need a little bit of dressing ready to go



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