Waterford Precision Cycles

Waterford Road
Bottom Bracket Shells

Waterford Lug Bottom Bracket Shell

Beyond its stunning beauty, the Waterford proprietary road bottom bracket ties together many important structural features of our framesets.


The chainstay bridge is integrated into the bottom bracket, stiffening up the chainstays which could otherwise be too short to fit a separate chainstay bridge. Optional fender mounts may be ordered with this bridge. The chainstays themselves have a larger diameter than traditional chainstays - adding both strength and stiffness without adding weight. The seatmast flares out from its otherwise 28.6mm OD (outside diameter) to add further stiffness over traditional designs. The flare begins low enough as not to interfere with the placement of clamp-on front derailleurs.
	As shown at left, the downtube and chainstays all enter the bottom bracket off-set from the BB spindle. This allows improves both stiffness and structural reliability.

Waterford offers the most advanced bottom bracket shell you can find.

Waterford TIG Bottom Bracket Shell

Waterford's skilled TIG-welders demonstrate their mastery no more critically than in their welding in this area. TIG welding lets Waterford join shapes not appropriate for lug brazing such as on the R-33.

In addition, TIG welding gives Waterford the design flexibility to join tube angles not possible with lug designs. This is especially true with frames for very small riders. As needed, Waterford can blend lug construction and TIG construction to meet individual rider needs.