Originally Posted by
thechemist
So has anyone actually had more stopping power from upgrading the actual brakes or is it really just the pad. Thinking of swapping my sram force brakes for some planetx or similar and hitting two birds with one stone(reduced weight stopping power).
I am running the swissstop yellow pads for carbon rims and frankly i think they suck. How are you guys cleaning the pads post race? assuming alignment is also key.
I've been using regular Campy brakes for a while now, with Koolstop pads, since 2010 for the current batch of wheels. I don't change pads when going from alum->carbon->alum. I did, back in 2008?, but after a few changes back and forth I stopped. At first I used the black koolstops but now the black/salmon combo. You have to have salmon for wet, the black koolstops are like water soluble wood in the wet.
Prior to that I used salmon koolstop on Zipps, like in the mid-late 90s.
__________________
"...during the Lance years, being fit became the No. 1 thing. Totally the only thing. It’s a big part of what we do, but fitness is not the only thing. There’s skills, there’s tactics … there’s all kinds of stuff..." Tim Johnson