Brake Pads

[fossyant]

Wet, carbon brake surfaces and possibly the wrong pads. Glad you are still here !

Were you on carbon rims ?

Get carbon specific, ideally the ones made by the same folk who make your carbon rims.

Koolstop Salmons are for alloy rims.

Never had a heat blow out though !

 

[Rob3rt]

IME Koolstop Salmons are simply not that good, there are better pads out there. But the Koolstop are priced pretty well (or they where when I bought them).

 

[jowwy]

[QUOTE 2960809, member: 259"]74kg on a loaded commuter bike, about 14kg. I ride an average of 28 Kmh and I go down some pretty steep slopes (moving at 55 kmh max).

I'm not in the mud, but it has rained almost every day for the past three months! [/quote]
well yourself and your bike - which is 88kg is still 22kg's lighter than myself an 32kgs lighter with bike weight added - i was descending the maerdy and rhigos mountains at circa 16% at speeds hitting 40mph in the rain

IT WAS NOT FUN, when you find your breaks don't work and when you do get them working, they over heat and cause a front tyre blowout

 

[jowwy]

Wet, carbon brake surfaces and possibly the wrong pads. Glad you are still here !

Were you on carbon rims ?

Get carbon specific, ideally the ones made by the same folk who make your carbon rims.

Koolstop Salmons are for alloy rims.

Never had a heat blow out though !

no fossy i was on alloys - no way would i have ridden carbons in that weather on sunday - i wouldn't be here if i did.

when the tyre blew, i turned the bike over and burnt my fingers on the rims, they were that hot

i had to wait a few minutes before i could attempt to change the tube

 

[fossyant]

I use Clarks pads throughout my bikes, although have just fitted some Dura Ace ones to two of my bikes. Both seem to perform exactly the same, and I've no issues.

 

[jowwy]

I have fitted swisstop blacks now - so will see how they go

 

[jowwy]

Not putting disc brakes on my titanium bike - no chance

 

[jowwy]

this is the ride profile for sunday's ride - had the hot rim blowout on the first descent

 

[Sillyoldman]

Just noticed that Swissstop released a new Blue BXP Alu rim block last year and claim better stopping distance than the Green GHP 2's.

http://www.swissstop.ch/Road.aspx

 

[Buzzinonbikes]

well yourself and your bike - which is 88kg is still 22kg's lighter than myself an 32kgs lighter with bike weight added - i was descending the maerdy and rhigos mountains at circa 16% at speeds hitting 40mph in the rain

IT WAS NOT FUN, when you find your breaks don't work and when you do get them working, they over heat and cause a front tyre blowout

In those conditions I would say ANY brake pad would struggle if you were letting the bike run up to 40MPH and then braking.

 

[jowwy]

My friends had no problems stopping and one guy was on carbons with swisstop yellows.

 

[CycleHighInValhalla]

no fossy i was on alloys - no way would i have ridden carbons in that weather on sunday - i wouldn't be here if i did.

when the tyre blew, i turned the bike over and burnt my fingers on the rims, they were that hot

i had to wait a few minutes before i could attempt to change the tube

What did you do to your rim tape?

 

[wam68]

i also suffered a hot rim blow out at the foot of the maerdy. was very scary indeed

Wow, now that's a nightmare

 

[outlash]

Sounds to me like you're letting yourself get up a head of speed, then expecting your brakes to work like a car's. Most brakes would struggle to cope with that in the conditions you describe. Most brakes would also slow you down if you descend at a steady pace, I've done it a fair few times on my cross bike with it's cantilever brakes and clarkes pads, which have now been changed to koolstop salmons as they're vastly superior.
I don't doubt swisstops are better but if you're going down 16% er's in the wet, you don't want to be going quick regardless.


Tony

 

[jowwy]

Sounds to me like you're letting yourself get up a head of speed, then expecting your brakes to work like a car's. Most brakes would struggle to cope with that in the conditions you describe. Most brakes would also slow you down if you descend at a steady pace, I've done it a fair few times on my cross bike with it's cantilever brakes and clarkes pads, which have now been changed to koolstop salmons as they're vastly superior.
I don't doubt swisstops are better but if you're going down 16% er's in the wet, you don't want to be going quick regardless.


Tony

I run discs on all my bikes now so its no longer a problem