Campag Brake Pad Holders

northpole

I have two bikes with Record and Super Record group sets, including brakes. To confuse matters a bit, I also have alloy and carbon rimmed wheels to use with both bikes. With Campy especially, I find it a complete pain in the backside to try and change over brake pads and I want to obtain spare pad holders which can more easily be swapped around.

Does anyone know if there are any places selling Campy brake pad holders on their own, at sensible money?

If not, do all Campy group sets use the same brake pad holders, or at what price point down the range do they change?

Alternatively, are there any decent third party pad holder manufacturers' products which you could recommend to me?

Peter

Simmo72

Disco brakes do alternatives, I've used for years and no problems. You can't buy the cartridge holders on their own but fairly cheap anyway. They have 55mm and 53mm versions with several different types of finish.

rolf_f

You can just use the Shimano type. I used Barradine holders from Ribble for a while. I gave up though because the little screws seize up in time and the pads are still awkward to get out. Still, it might work for you. The expensive option is to get a new set of Record brakes with the new holders that use spring clips to hold the pads in and are presumably easier to extract the pads from. They are stupidly expensive as spares hence the suggestion to get the brakeset. I got an unused brakeset off Ebay for about £109.

Alternatively, just do the sensible thing and keep one type of wheel for one bike and the other for the other!

Iamnot Wiggins

Rolf F wrote:

You can just use the Shimano type. I used Barradine holders from Ribble for a while. I gave up though because the little screws seize up in time and the pads are still awkward to get out. Still, it might work for you. The expensive option is to get a new set of Record brakes with the new holders that use spring clips to hold the pads in and are presumably easier to extract the pads from. They are stupidly expensive as spares hence the suggestion to get the brakeset. I got an unused brakeset off Ebay for about £109.

Alternatively, just do the sensible thing and keep one type of wheel for one bike and the other for the other!

The spring holders are also on chorus brakes and are equally as fiddly as undoing little screws!

vanleapo

I have Aztec brake pad holders on my Record brakes and they work fine.
http://www.aztecbrakes.co.uk/rim/road

Coach H

If you really want Campag holders, the cheapes way to get them is to get some Veloce brakes just for the holders.
Yes they are the non-spring type, but new style pads fit; and they are solid backed; and you then have spare calipers sitting in your spares cupboard, but its the only ecconimically viable way of getting Campag holders.
http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/road-t ... 2000000000

Say it quietly, but I have Shimano 105 holders on one of my Campag equipped bikes......shhhh! :oops:

rolf_f

Coach H wrote:

If you really want Campag holders, the cheapes way to get them is to get some Veloce brakes just for the holders.
Yes they are the non-spring type, but new style pads fit; and they are solid backed; and you then have spare calipers sitting in your spares cupboard, but its the only ecconimically viable way of getting Campag holders.
http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/road-t ... 2000000000

Actually, the easiest way for the OP to get Campag holders is to use the ones he already has.......

Iamnot Wiggins wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

You can just use the Shimano type. I used Barradine holders from Ribble for a while. I gave up though because the little screws seize up in time and the pads are still awkward to get out. Still, it might work for you. The expensive option is to get a new set of Record brakes with the new holders that use spring clips to hold the pads in and are presumably easier to extract the pads from. They are stupidly expensive as spares hence the suggestion to get the brakeset. I got an unused brakeset off Ebay for about £109.

Alternatively, just do the sensible thing and keep one type of wheel for one bike and the other for the other!

The spring holders are also on chorus brakes and are equally as fiddly as undoing little screws!

I did almost add to my post 'but who knows if the spring clips are any easier than the screws - I've yet to find out'

dabber

My Veloce brakes never came with holders. Just all-in-one holder/blocks.

Coach H

Dabber wrote:

My Veloce brakes never came with holders. Just all-in-one holder/blocks.

Older ones came with the one piece pad, but since the skeleton ones got discontinued they have had the two piece. At least the two sets I have had, via the Ribble link, have.

northpole

Thanks for the replies folks. It seems incredibly wasteful and counter intuitive, but if the Veloce brake block holders are the same size as all other Campy ranges, it may well be the most economical way to have the swap over option. Weird how they don't offer them for sale separately other than it may be embarrassing for them to place different price tags on essentially the same parts! (Springy bit excepted).

Peter

dabber

Coach H wrote:

Dabber wrote:

My Veloce brakes never came with holders. Just all-in-one holder/blocks.

Older ones came with the one piece pad, but since the skeleton ones got discontinued they have had the two piece. At least the two sets I have had, via the Ribble link, have.

Mine aren't the skeleton variety. Vintage? They came with my Wilier Mortirolo, purchased February 2011.

on-yer-bike

I had the same issue. I bought black BBB for Campag shoes for about £16.00 with blocks. Ive never used the blocks but the shoes are fine. I use Campag bolts though because if I remember rightly the BBB bolts were a bit tight in the brake slot. Campag shoes at the time were around £90 and this was before the new version.

rolf_f

northpole wrote:

Thanks for the replies folks. It seems incredibly wasteful and counter intuitive, but if the Veloce brake block holders are the same size as all other Campy ranges, it may well be the most economical way to have the swap over option.

Errr, it isn't! See other posts in the thread..... Unless you can buy a pair of Veloce calipers for £6.20

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/road-track-bike/brake-blocks-pads-rim-trivio-460c-55mm-campagnolo-brake-blocks-cartridge-system-1pr/trivbrbl315
or
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/clarks-55mm-caliper-brake-shoe-campagnolo/rp-prod55805
or
http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/ashima-road-brake-blocks-aluminium-standard-campagnolo-prod25902/

All you need to do is Google 'Campagnolo brake shoes'

Coach H

Dabber wrote:

Coach H wrote:

Dabber wrote:

My Veloce brakes never came with holders. Just all-in-one holder/blocks.

Older ones came with the one piece pad, but since the skeleton ones got discontinued they have had the two piece. At least the two sets I have had, via the Ribble link, have.

Mine aren't the skeleton variety. Vintage? They came with my Wilier Mortirolo, purchased February 2011.

That does sound right Dabber. I think they changed them in 2011 or 2012. When I said older, I didn't mean old, sorry.
Lower end OEM components always take a while to change over as well due to when components are ordered and suppliers offering discounts for old stock.