Forum menu
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... 🙂