Replace brake pads

[daithi_dearg]

Hello,

I have a white cube peloton bike well over 10 years old and have always just been lazy and dropped it into the bike shop for bike pads every year or 2.

Looks like I have Shimano Sora brakes and looking for advice on what I need to order and where. Wiggle? I'm based in Ireland by the way.

Appreciate the help. Feel like a weirdo that I never replaced these myself

 

[Ajax Bay]

Procure the Kool-Stop Dura2 salmon brake blocks, especially for the dry parts of Ireland.
I recently rode my son's bike and was appalled how poor his black coloured ?half-ords ones were compared to my pink ones.

 

[daithi_dearg]

Thanks for the info although seem quite expensive. I'll have a think but thanks for the info.

Are there dry parts of Ireland ;-)

 

[si_c]

Yep, those are my go to for Rim Brake pads, they work really well in most conditions and are much cheaper than some other options.

The black brake pads tend to go really hard after a period of time and stop braking anywhere nearly as well but the Salmons seem to last much longer.

Just replaced the ones on my Trek, they've done a good few thousand miles.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Wiggle is more unfortunately.

Replacing just the pads is easy enough. Wheel out. Undo the barrel adjuster to put as much slack into the cable as poss (pads move away from wheel). Remove the little grub screw thing that secures the pad, slide the old one out, new one in. Grub screw back in. wheel back in. Tighten the barrel adjuster if you feel it needs it.

Take the opportunity to give everything a good clean while doing this.

If you go the whole hog and replace the holders as well as the pads, be super careful to do them the right way round. They are marked Left and Right. Getting this wrong is potentially very dangerous. Get it wrong and applying the brakes could result in the pad being ejected from the holder.