Right then, I’m fed up of my frame with a press fit BB, neither me or my LBS can get the bugger to stop creaking so I’m heavily debating just buying a new frame.

I’d like a good, racey frame and fork package with threaded BB and ideally with a neat way of routing Di2. Steel seems like a nice option, either from Condor or Richie but in honesty, I think carbon is a more sensible option.

Cost is not too much of an issues, £1k is fine, £1.5k maybe as a top line.

Any thoughts?

If you want to go disc, how about Mason? Internal cables, Di2 compatible and threaded BB. I’ve just bought a Definition and it’s lovely.

Mason Cycles. Either his alu Definition or the steel Resolution. Both get cracking write ups on road.cc with the tester buying a Definition frame for himself. Just ordered a Definition for myself in fact.

Bah, got distracted mid post and beaten to it!

Praxis BB for your current frame?

How about this https://masoncycles.cc/products/resolution-frameset

Upgraded BB, Hope in this case is already in place, it’s made little or no difference.
Don’t want disks at the moment as I want to move my existing wheels and build onto a new frame.
Those Mason frames, nice though they are, aren’t quite what I’m looking for.

chose the frame you want and worry about the BB later.
a praxis or wheels MFG bb. not a BB-30 adapter but a BB that will always have parallel bearings and is 2 halves screwed together as one unit.
Due to not wanting to deal with BB30 i asked for a BSA bb on my last custom frame but those Italians like to do their own thing so it turned up with a BB-30. currently using a wheelsMFG bb with no creaks and have a praxis one spare ready to use if/when the bearings eventually go in the WMFG one (i’ll get them pressed out and replaced)

chose the frame you want and worry about the BB later.

I did that and ended up for a creaky pressfit BB. Logical or not, I now want a frame with a threaded BB.

I can’t think of any modern carbon frame that has a threaded BB at the price range your talking about (which clearly limits your choices).

The Colnago C60 uses a hybrid BB, with proprietary threaded cups that then accept press fit cartridge bearings, but that’s about three times your budget.

My Condor (Leggero) has a press fit BB30 and it’s been fine; no creaks no issues. I think that merely suggests that the creaking issue is more about the frame than the BB specification.

I’d never suggset you don’t buy a new frame because what’s not to like about buying a new frame, but I would suggest that you make your spec list ‘I want something that doesn’t creak’ rather than ‘I want something with a threaded BB’.

That said a Genesis Volare 853 would do the job as would a Condor Acciaio (the Super Acciaio should also be considered as a good example of my point above. It’s BB30, so press fit, but it’s in a steel housing so the tolerances are likely to be better and less likely to creak).

Praxis option FTW IMO

Cost is not too much of an issues, £1k is fine, £1.5k maybe as a top line.

Thinking about it some more, £1.5k would buy you a very nice steel custom frame from Rourke.

Yeah dont worry about BB option, Ive got a stumpy carbon with PF30 BB and a CAAD10 with BB30, both running praxis works adapters to use shimano 24mm, both silent and rock solid many miles in.

So, this Praxis option, anyone got a link for the PF86 version? I can find a BB30 one but not this size.

Aren’t all the Pinarello’s still using threaded BB’s

Italian of course, but threaded.

Steel, carbon and alloy frames here: http://www.chickencycles.co.uk/index.php?cat=54&sub=129&ord=2

The steel one looks good!

Some more here: http://www.chickencycles.co.uk/index.php?cat=54&sub=125&ord=2

What about a Planet X?

Or, keep your eye out for old Cannondales/Giants on ebay; great frames with threaded BBs