Your bike’s bottom bracket is the part that connects your cranks to the rest of the bike, allowing your crank arms to rotate. Before buying a bike bottom bracket, you need to check the compatibility, as there are different sizes available. The three most common bottom bracket sizes are the 68 millimeter, the 70 millimeter, and the 73 millimeter.

Italian manufacturer Campagnolo are renowned for their bike components, and they make some of the best bike bottom brackets on the market today. Here, we take a look at some of the bottom brackets in the Campagnolo range.

The Campagnolo Centaur Tapered Bottom Bracket

This cartridge bottom bracket is a cold-forged aluminum crankset, with long cage rear derailleur and a specific front derailleur for use with triple kits. It features a hollow axle and light alloy cups.

The Centaur bottom bracket has a 111-millimeter spindle length, and it’s very light and stiff which means that your energy isn’t dispersed and wasted when you’re pushing down hard on the pedals.

The Campagnolo Veloce 10 Speed Bottom Bracket

This is Campagnolo’s entry-level bottom bracket. It has a a steel axle that rotates on cartridge bearings that are inside two light alloy cups. The unit is fully sealed for longer lasting durability and hassle free maintenance.

The shell sizes for the Veloce 10 Speed bottom bracket include both 68 millimeter and 70 millimeter variations. They have a 111 millimeter spindle for double chainsets and 115 millimeter spindle for triple chainsets or for frames with oversize seat tubes. The Veloce 10 Speed bottom bracket weighs 293 grams.

The Campagnolo Record Pista Track Bottom Bracket

These bottom brackets are part of a groupset that Campagnolo have designed specifically for velodrome racing. The groupset consists of a crankset, hubs and the bottom bracket.

The length of the axle of the Record Pista is 111 millimeters and the cartridge is manufactured from composite and light alloy, as are the cups which have no sealings. This Campagnolo bottom bracket weighs 220 grams.

The Campagnolo Chorus Double Tapered Bottom Bracket

Quality, lightness and exceptional smoothness are what makes this bottom bracket set such a winner. It features a completely hollow axle, light alloy cartridge and light alloy cups which means that this headset weighs just 220 grams.

The Campagnolo Chorus Triple Bottom Bracket

Apart from some minor differences in the materials, this Chorus triple bottom bracket is practically a clone of the Record bottom bracket.

Again, Compagnolo have designed this bike bottom bracket with the highest standards in quality, light weight and smoothness in mind.

Like the Record Pista, the Record features a completely hollow axle, a light alloy cartridge, light alloy cups and weighs in at 233 grams.

If you are searching for a new groupset, or bottom bracket set, and you only want the best professional, race quality components on your bike, then you really can’t go past Compagnolo. They make some of the best racing components available on the market today, and these are no exception.

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