Rim Wear

[Deleted member 1258]

I'm seeing very low wear with a Ryde Chrina and Kool-Stop salmon pads. Some pads are too soft and embed grit and then chips from the rim. They destroy rims very fast. Kool-Stop salmons don't embed anything.

I'm getting through a set of pads every year on the front. I don't like a rear brake on a fixie.

I've kept the rear brake on mine, its useful when its slippery

 

[confusedcyclist]

Back when I ran rim brakes I made a point of using relatively cheap rims, mavic open pro C, usually purchased end of season sales.

 

[confusedcyclist]

and the dual which was supposed to be the best of both

Or let down by the worst of half.

 

[presta]

Isn't there two sorts of Koolstop? One for wet and one for dry? Or did I dream that?

That's probably why, these are the ones I'm using:
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/brake-blocks/koolstop-eagle-2-cantilever-block-black/