What is a Shimano-Pattern Crank?

December 28, 2022

 

Shimano-pattern crank sets include all cranks that use a 24mm spindle (at the bearing journals) and hold to a 90mm wide (nominal) Hollowtech2 bearing stance. This includes all Shimano Hollowtech2 cranks, FSA MegaExo, Rotor 3D/Aldhu 24, Answer BMX 24, SRM 24mm PM's, and many others. Shimano-pattern cranks are cross compatible with any Shimano Hollowtech2 bottom bracket we offer, be it PressFit or threaded. If you've got a Shimano-pattern crank all you need from us is a Shimano bottom bracket, and you're golden. Shimano-pattern cranks can be either road or MTB. This does not include Gxp. Gxp has a 24mm bearing interface (journal) on one side, and a 22mm on the other. Gxp is not a Shimano-pattern crank. Thanks to Dave at Angry Dave's Bicycles for letting us use his personal rides for this video. Dave is the wheel building guru of Little Rock and beyond. Check him out! BBInfinite is here to solve the bottom bracket creaking and squeaking plaguing your ride. BBInfinite doesn't simply fix a bottom bracket creak, we deliver the highest spin performance of any botttom bracket system out there. Faster and creak-free? Absolutely, with BBInfinite. 

 

We're about to install the Shimano DXR crank in this beautiful Redline using this Euro threaded bottom bracket. Now, Euro is also known as BSA or English threaded and it's a Shimano pattern bottom bracket, which means of course you can install Shimano crank or any 24mm spindle crank which would include a Mega Exo crank, an Answer crank Rotor Aldhu 24- you just name it, if it's 24mm it's a Shimano pattern crank set and it will fit in any of our Shimano bottom brackets

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