CAAD12/CAAD13 BB30A Install Pitfall Solved

December 28, 2022

 

BB30A (42mm x 73mm) is found on CAAD12, CAAD13, and Synapse Carbon bikes from Cannondale, and that's pretty much it. The Synapse install is slam-dunk, but the CAADs are trickier and can turn a slam-dunk into a slam-crunch. Come with us now to show you how to avoid the pitfall that has made many a man cry. BBInfinite is here to solve the bottom bracket creaking and squeaking that's ruining you ride. BBInfinite doesn't just fix a bottom bracket creak, we deliver the highest spin performance of any bottom bracket system out there. Faster and creak-free? Absolutely, with BBInfinite. 

 

As we're pushing in right here you can see once we press it in about that far it suddenly becomes loose in the frame what a lot of people do is they'll go like when they feel that they'll go they'll just push this to the other side and they'll tighten up the press and they'll start pressing it but there is a real danger to that and I'll show you here in just a second you see right here how that square in there it can also drop down like right behind here okay there is a little ledge back here getting my finger in the way there's a little ledge back here that this the front nose of this can get stuck on just like that right see how it's not pressing in and what would happen real quick what you need to do is you need to manually put it over where it's like all the way around and then kind of get started in the frame and then we're going to go ahead and press it in now if it gets caught if you if let's just say we didn't take it apart and manually put it over and center it and restart it if we just crammed it all over and started running it down again which is what a lot of people do what happens when that nose crashes into that legend there it just locks it up I mean the nose just hits that and locks it up and as you're as you're pressing instead of now pressing the bottom bracket into the bike you're just merely uh doing a can crusher you're just crushing the crap out of the module so don't do that and it's happened a lot uh which is why we're making this video so guys be very careful and follow step 5. Follow our CAAD12/CAAD13 bottom bracket installation instructions and everything will be great.

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