[Closed] shimano ht2 bottom bracket on cotic soul

1 spacer on the drive side only is correct for all bikes with a 73mm bb.

Enjoy the Soul! Cracking bike 🙂

Anyone else have problems with quick releases and rear mechs?

1 spacer on the drive side only is correct for all bikes with a 73mm bb.

No its not. 1 spacer is correct, depends on your chainline whcih side you put it on

No its not. 1 spacer is correct, depends on your chainline whcih side you put it on

Surly if it put opposite side of drive all a spacer will be doing is spacing the crank arm out from the frame.
Will put one spacer in the drive side and that will give a bit more clearence for the drive rings from the frame..
Any body else how have you set up shimano bb for hollowtec 2 cranks on new cotic soul frame..

Thanks blahblahblah .) looking forward to riding it now.. 😆

That's how I set my Soul up and the chainline is bang on. My understanding of the spacer on the drive side was to account for setups that use a bb mounted mech or chain device. If you do, replace the spacer with said bb mounted device. I guess you could use it to adjust chainline a bit but it's a bit of a kludge.

Cheers blahblahblah, will do it like that one spacer drive side and none the other side..
cheers

Standard is one on the drive side, none on the other. But Davidtaylforth's spot on, you might want to mess with that further depending on your own setup.

i run the spacer on the non-drive side (i think it gives a better chainline), chain ring clearance is not a problem. The only issue i have with it is the front mech can rub on the tyre in granny with big knobbly tyres on.

If you're not sure, just put one spacer on the driveside. That is the industry standard.

If you really want to muck about with chainline then feel free to put it where you like.