Anyone know the difference?
Found the BB7 road platinum for £35 on CRC (with 140mm rotor) and the BB7 road (non-platinum) for £50. OK, the price difference is clearance and probably because of the 140 size but other than that, what's different?
They look the same, basically have the same description and I can't find anything online that says what the difference is.
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/SearchResults.aspx?Search=bb7+road
No difference - ordered.
Ta for the heads up!
Dunno, but for £35 I'm tempted to grab one just as a spare!
Well the adapter will be for a 140mm rotor, which may be fine depending on your application. You may need to be careful, I have had some BB7's come through where the adapters use slightly different post spacing. S0o you may need to get a special BB7 road 160mm adapter to make them work with 160mm rotors. IIRC this was for the ones which did both front and rear.
Looks identical - I just bought one too 
another thanks for the heads up - UK10 discount code makes it even cheaper for 2
I got my £50 voucher for spending £100 which will nicely reduce the price of the disc cx fork to match the calipers
As to the difference, I don't think there is one - Further research says that 'platinum' is what the silver colour is called so I think that it's the same model just a different rotor size.
Sam - the different post spacing - effectively you mean that they're not proper post mount then since that spacing is set at 74mm? Seems rather odd. Worst case, I guess I could just get a +20 IS to IS adaptor though it'd look rather clunky.
if it fits a is front fork and works at 140, i'd happilt swap the adaptor and disc for my 160 which has had a couple of short dry rides, wish i'd got 140 front and rear now
Just for reference, the £35 ones ("BB7 road platinum") are 140mm rotor "rears" - that means they'll work fine on the front but you'd need to replace the 140mm rotor it comes with with a 160mm rotor. The adaptor even states that it's for 140mm rear or 160mm front.
Perfect for me as it goes
Look at the levers. The pull ratios are different.
They're road ones. They work with road levers which is what I want and what I said all the way up there in my first post...
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