veloce brifters attaching bolt

[fogrider]

so I just got my order from ribble cycles...campy veloce brifters fd, tektro brakes, etc. for a bike build for my daughter. so I go to mount the brifters, but I can't seem to get a 4 mm to fit into the bolt hole and a 3 mm is too small. so they went to 3.5 mm?!? just checked online and can't find 3.5, so am I'm stuck?

[thwart]

Torx bolt?

Unfortunately, in my view anyway, Campy has gone that way with a lot of their components.

[fogrider]

Torx bolt?

Unfortunately, in my view anyway, Campy has gone that way with a lot of their components.
I must have a few, but I can't find them right now...errr

[ultraman6970]

The last models used a T25 If in recall right. Veloce has a torx too???

[bismo37]

Yeah, I bet you have a T25 Torx bolt not a hex bolt. I just built up a bike with Athena and found a few areas where campy had switched to T25 bolts. Kinda silly as my on-bike tool kit has no Torx tool.

[maunahaole]

T25 torx. The bolt is alloy and pretty soft, so be careful. Get something with a long bit as you may have to push past some folded up brake hood to get to it, meaning a stubby socket type may not reach.

[ultraman6970]

Love campy but in the new brifters is kind'a non comfortable to use the a tool in that torx, well once in place it wont go nowhere tho.

[Fishbike]

Yup just installed Veloce with Torx. It required some acrobatics. Everytime I attach levers Think it is more difficult than it should be.

[dancinkozmo]

...so we're all agreed then

CAMPAG STINKS .

[CNY rider]

...so we're all agreed then

CAMPAG STINKS .

Love the Campag.
Hate that freaking bolt.
Bad hardware in a bad location.

[oldpotatoe]

so I just got my order from ribble cycles...campy veloce brifters fd, tektro brakes, etc. for a bike build for my daughter. so I go to mount the brifters, but I can't seem to get a 4 mm to fit into the bolt hole and a 3 mm is too small. so they went to 3.5 mm?!? just checked online and can't find 3.5, so am I'm stuck?

It is a Torx. Aluminum is soft, torx is best.

[wtex]

Found that myself with my 2010 Centaur group, and with Veloce -- incomprehensible why the entire group would be hex bolts, and then one torx for the Ergos. And discover that when all the hardware stores are closed.

[oldpotatoe]

Found that myself with my 2010 Centaur group, and with Veloce -- incomprehensible why the entire group would be hex bolts, and then one torx for the Ergos. And discover that when all the hardware stores are closed.

It'll still be torx when the hardware store opens.

[dancinkozmo]

It is a Torx. Aluminum is soft, torx is best.

whats the rationale for using an Al bolt here ? seems pointless to me .

[AngryScientist]

It is a Torx. Aluminum is soft, torx is best.

Peter nailed it. if you have a proper long shaft torx tool, it provides a very secure fit and installing is a breeze.

[oldpotatoe]

whats the rationale for using an Al bolt here ? seems pointless to me .


When every ad you see about bike anything is about weight, alu in that bolt.

[dancinkozmo]

so 2 of those bolts will save me 0.000000000000000000000000000000001 % of total mass and make me fly up the cols ?

makes sense to me !

[oldpotatoe]

so 2 of those bolts will save me 0.000000000000000000000000000000001 % of total mass and make me fly up the cols ?

makes sense to me !

Makes sense to the legion of marketeers that work for every bike gizmo and frame made today.

From sram, "were due in part to the lightest, most efficient, and ergonomic road componentry ever made"

blah, blah, blah

[Ralph]

I can get to that bolt pretty easy with a torx head screw driver.

[oldpotatoe]

I can get to that bolt pretty easy with a torx head screw driver.

If you pull the hood forward, off the thumb button as well, easy to get the torx in there...

[ultraman6970]

Yes u need a screw driver t25, I have only bits and is a pita. Thats reminds me to buy one of those screw drivers.

[fogrider]

yeah, I got a bit set from another member...right tool for the right job. I don't really care if its alum or steel...why torx? I don't see much reason to need to make an adjustment on the road, but still. another issue is getting the shift cables out to the housing. it comes up and daylights and I had to feed it into a tiny hole that turns 90 degrees, I couldn't get the cable to turn into the hole and had to feed it causing the cable to loop. to close the loop, cable gets a kink. I kinked it at the end and cut it off...

[maunahaole]

I kinked mine the first time I tried it - You can do it without kinking it, but it takes a steady hand, a little luck and some small tools to hold the cable down.