Velosolo bolt on cogs

http://www.velosolo.co.uk/shopdisc.html
These things, I want to know if any of you have used them and would recomend them or if i should give them a miss. I'm considering a trick build on an extreamly tight budget so would these be a good way of getting a strong cheap fixed wheel?

A friend of mine uses one on his work bike (courier) and polo bike. No problems at all.

bought one, and planning to fit it today/this weekend, depending on how lazy I feel

They're decent. I've got one I'm selling if you're interested. 36x Sputnik with an XT hub and 22t cog.

gotta love bikes: need a different tool for every frickin' part. Went to take the disc off the hub and its attached with bolts that look like they need a star screwdriver to remove them. Since I fitted it (years ago) I'll assume I had the right tool but fuck knows where it is. Off to the LBS then...

Torx probably. More and more bike stuff is moving to torx, so it's probably worth digging out the bits (or buying new ones if you can't find them).

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torx[/ame]

Cheers. I needed to go to the LBS to pick up a cone spanner anyway, so I'll ask for a set

Alright thanks guys I'll keep a look out for a cheap as hell mtb wheel.

well I fitted it but can't upload the piccie at the moment. Fairly easy job, just need 13mm and 17mm cone spanners. Watch out for bearings dropping out! Think Velo Solo sent me the wrong length axle though (rather than me ordering the wrong length). I may see if I can swap it or just cut it down

gotta love bikes: need a different tool for every frickin' part. Went to take the disc off the hub and its attached with bolts that look like they need a star screwdriver to remove them. Since I fitted it (years ago) I'll assume I had the right tool but fuck knows where it is. Off to the LBS then...

What Horatio said, most likely a T25. A large amount of bike multi-tools come with them, not that uncommon.

info may be good the timing is off. I guessed the size and ending up taking them off with my torque wrench. Disc is now on and the axle swapped around

oh and in case you're trying to score points off me, the lad in the first bike shop didn't have any, and said that while they were used for a while like that, Torx bolts are not used much anymore

jussayin

Allen keys are becoming more common again as nobody noticed the improvement of torx. Merely the annoyance of having to have a set of allenkeys and a set of torx bits.

Its VHS vs Betamax all over again

Like the zipp disc...
or the minidisc...

or Megadrive vs SNES

or better yet BBC vs ZX Spectrum

oh and in case you're trying to score points off me, the lad in the first bike shop didn't have any, and said that while they were used for a while like that, Torx bolts are not used much anymore

jussayin

No points scoring going on here, though I bought a new set of brake discs a few months back which came with T25 bolts and in our workshop we've got quite a selection of tools for all sorts of Torx bolt sizes. You need to get yourself a better LBS ;)

I'm sure in the workshop they had plenty, just none commercially available. The opinion was that Torx were used for a while with disc mounting, generally now that's out of favour, hence the lack of them on sale. Halfords of course had them

Ahh I thought you meant the workshop had none, as you were.

you can't beat the good old Allen, or as the French call them, Alain, key

Shimano stuff still come with torx but I much prefer allenkey as you then Only need a small multitool for rides.

New Campag use torx. I bought an Athena groupset last year and it was a mix between allen and torx.

99% of the bolts on my Volvo are Torx. They go up quite big.

Torx headbolts are a bit annoying. Snapped 2 bits when removing a head before

Were you using too much torque? The main point of the Torx bolts are that they don't produce as much stress on the bolts/tools which means you're less likely to damage them. This also means that you can reach a much higher torque before the tool slips, which means it's easy to exceed the maximum torque that you can apply to the bolt/tool.