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Originally Posted by randya
the original brakes that came with R20s work equally crappy on steel or aluminum rims, with or without salmon kool stop pads. the only improvement aluminum rims will make with braking using the stock brakes is a slight improvement in wet weather stopping power, which is just about zero with the steel rims, so any change is an improvement.
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I found the same thing. I switched out the pads first. Not much difference. I put on aluminum rips. Still not a lot of stopping power. I finally added a modern V-brake on the front and now the stopping power is adequate.

If I had it do again I would switch to 451 rims and duel pivot long reach brakes. I did not go in this direction before due to the greater availability of 406 tires.
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