Brakes for a Sirrus?

[Wheeledweenie]

Me... again.

I need new brake blocks and want to shop around rather than just buy from Evans like normal but I'm bamboozled by choice.

I seem to go through brakes at a rate of knots and need good stopping power that lasts.

 

[redjedi]

not sure which brakes you've got but Kool Stop Salmons are the ones to go for.

Excellent in the wet, and last well.

 

[Wheeledweenie]

Apparently I have V-brakes so I assume I'd need the cantilever ones?

 

[redjedi]

I should have know really as I've just built up an old Sirrus frame

The v-brake ones should work. They should look very similar to the ones you've got already.

I think the black ones will last longer, but the salmons are great in the wet so worth using all year round in this country.

But both will last a lot longer than the generic/Shimano ones you have been using.

I think the other colours are the same as the blacks, compound wise, just cosmetic.