There are times you just want to slow down or stop, then there are times you need to stop as fast as possible. For those times, I use salmon exclusively. As long as the brakes don't wear out in 1,000 or 4,000 miles, I don't care. What I see now, I'm going to get 20,000 miles or more out of salmons. I have 10,000 miles on them now and they look great.