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sadlonelygit

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tyres sorted...........now for brake pads
« on: 25 February 2012, 10:30:50 am »
now some unbeleivably cheap corsa rosso's will be gracing my bike shortly, it's time to look at the front brakes.
brembo race (£95) to kyoto (£18).
neither of those will be gracing my bike. i've used goldfren before and they were fine, but wondering about sbs/carbon lorraine.
anyone care to share! 
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Re: tyres sorted...........now for brake pads
« Reply #1 on: 25 February 2012, 11:11:38 am »
SBS 'street excel' on mine & work fine.
EBC HH also seem to pop up regularly as recommended replacements

Think there's another brake pad thread on this new site already

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Re: tyres sorted...........now for brake pads
« Reply #2 on: 25 February 2012, 12:28:04 pm »
EBC 'HH' for me, always used EBC with all my bikes, right back to when I used to buy brake shoes! Can't fault 'em, having said that others have rated SBS highly. There is  another post on here somwhere on this subject.

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Re: tyres sorted...........now for brake pads
« Reply #3 on: 25 February 2012, 01:06:21 pm »
I have Carbon Lorraine (A3+ I think) on mine and they are fine, having said that though when I had a new front tyre couple of years back the last set fell to bits when the fitter took the front wheel out, delaminating is the word I believe, dread to think what coulda happened if one of the friction bits had fallen out while riding.

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Re: tyres sorted...........now for brake pads
« Reply #4 on: 25 February 2012, 01:40:31 pm »
I have a set of CL AK they are ok , need a lot of lever pressure and have a  more gentle intial grab than HH.

I,ll be replacing with something else, did the Goldfren thing on ST4s and they were fine.