Sigh. Something else I didn't know that I needed until I realized that I didn't have it. If I may ask, at what online store might one purchase these unneeded but required brake shoes?
"unneeded but required"
Yeah, me too.
Yokozuna Premium Cables, Housing and Brake Pads
Then you start thinking how awesome they'd be on your
#1 bike, and then,
#2 bike...
I got the set of threaded shoes to replace the rock hard Superbe pads on my 1978 Trek 730. They look so outrageously cool.
However, a while ago I got a full set of the black shoes off the eBay- right around the same price as the Yokozuna pads. I don't know if they're actually old stock Mathauser/Scott pads or if the seller just represented Yokozunas as NOS. I haven't mounted them yet because I have so much else yet to do with the braking system...
I'd like to have the black sanded off, replace the shoes on my NOS XC Pro brakes and put them on my Trek 720.
Of course, if I do that, I have to replace the Shimano cable hanger with the identical DiaComp one and of course the levers have to be replaced with either Superbe or Gran Compe levers... You can't just change one thing. *sigh*
