Campagnolo brake pads

llen
llen Posts: 65
edited January 2015 in Road buying advice
So I'm looking to replace the brake pads on my campagnolo veloce brakes and I find that I can replace both brake units for a very similar price....how does that work????

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  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    Haven't fathomed it myself, but tempted to upgrade to Centaur calipers for another £10-15 (which I think are compatible with third party blocks).
  • llen
    llen Posts: 65
    That's what I'm going to do. They have a set simply called campagnolo skeleton dual pivot brakes which are only £20 more. They don't seem to be part of any particular groupset.
  • cycleclinic
    cycleclinic Posts: 6,865
    You can buy after market pad inserts for campagnolo like kool stop or even aztec for not a huge ammount. Far cheaper and less wasteful. Centaur brakes work as well as veloce which is pretty damm good.
    http://www.thecycleclinic.co.uk -wheel building and other stuff.
  • dulwichiron
    dulwichiron Posts: 86
    I just bought some of these for the commuter which seems to eat pads. Probably wont last long but are super cheap. http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/clar ... -prod47494

    I've also used BBB ones in the past which were as good as the campag ones.
  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    llen wrote:
    That's what I'm going to do. They have a set simply called campagnolo skeleton dual pivot brakes which are only £20 more. They don't seem to be part of any particular groupset.

    I hadn't noticed those before:

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/campagnolo-blac ... vot-brakes

    Odd that they don't have a groupset name. Maybe intended for OEM builds?

    Edit: Looks like the current Athena caliper on the Campag website (neither Athena nor Chorus have a groupset name where you'd expect it on the caliper, at least in the pictures). Centaur seems to be gone this year.

    http://www.campagnolo.com/WW/en/groupes ... hena/route

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