[Closed] Road Question - Campag Veloce

If my failing memory serves me right, I think the axle length is stamped onto the right hand BB flange - might be worth just pulling the chainset off and seeing what is currently fitted. Probably will be the 115.5mm, but worth checking.

Brill - i'll go and check 🙂 Thanks Missing 🙂

No it only says the tpi 🙁 I'll get the triple anyway.

Erm why not measure it? (sorry if I have missed something). 115 does make sense though.

You "think" it needs replaced - why?

The creaking is still going on. I am convinced its either the BB or the axle interface. I have knackered the thread on the drive crank as the metal is old and soft trying it get it off with my crank extractor. I need to get a bit of wood and tap it off - I'll try that first but need to get the Campag BB tool and so for and extra £15 I can get a new Veloce BB. Its 3 years old but hasn't been ridden recently. I can use the spare BB eventually 🙂 If that makes sense ? It now creaks both sides and having had that on previous bikes I think I'm in the right area. I want to take the BB out anyway to clean and grease. So I can always send it back if its the wrong size - just wanted to get all the stuff I might need and do it all at one time 🙂

Aye OK well up to you still bet there's nowt wrong with the bb.

Oh and metal doesn't go soft with age 😉 ...you'll need more than a tap with a bit of wood to get the crank off, ideally a stein cutter & puller.

Quick fix...pull LH crank off, pull LH bb cup out, spray lube shell/thread interfaces, reassemble.

Re the creaking - it's not the lower headset race is it? Sounds daft but it's one of those creaks that reverberates through the frame and often feels like the BB. I had the entire chainset/BB in bits and regreased trying to fix a creak once, it turned out to be the bottom cup of the headset and I've seen it on customers bikes too.

Seems pretty much anything can cause a creak (tho rarely worn.corroded bearings).

BB/pedal/chainring bolt threads still the most common cause OME/O!

Yup cynical - sorry bad terminology - I think I should have said it was corroded as It stripped the thread out 🙁 BTW - checked crank bolts and pedals in the last 2 weeks 🙂

I'll bash the inside of the crank with wood and see if I can at least loosen it - I was def going to take the non-drive crank off (unless I also strip the thread off 🙁 )

I expect the BB is OK but having been a boy scout I am always prepared 😉

Crazy - def not the headset as removed and cleaned when I got the bike 3 weeks ago as had to setup the ride position from sratch 🙂 Will def look again though 🙂

I had a really annoying creak that turned out to be a cable ferrule rubbing against a cable stop. Took 4 months to track down and required removing BB, headset, peadls, pivot bolts and bearings.

I think I have checked all the easily accessible sites so far - the BB is left 😉

Campag triples are 115mm axles apart from Chorus and Record IIRC which were 111.

Thanks breathe - 115 ordered and probably surplus 😉

BTW my clicking/creaking is gone! Replaced BB which was rusted up and very rough with little bit of play - new bb, cleaned threads in BB, cleaned cranks. Had to remove the drive crank with a chisel as a wedge driver but came off a treat 🙂 Reckon it was either the bearings or poss creaking from the rust between the non-drive sleeve and BB shell? Anyway I am tickled pink 🙂

it's never the bearings!

I have to disagree! And the BB needed replacing as it was def on the way out - rusty water coming out of it! BTW I have been doing my own servicing on my MTB's since I have been mountain biking (1992) and been road biking now for 5 years so I do have some experience of these sort of things Cynic-al 🙂

I am not putting the old BB back in to prove the point however 😉

Worked in bike shops on and off (mostly off) since 1988.

It's appealing to think the bearings cause it but there's more logic to other causes.

Point taken ! Still on my list of possibilities 🙂