Originally Posted by
Pemetic2006
Thanks! And thanks for the Photobucket advice and the info on the brake shoes - I wondered about them. I'm going to do some research as I am not familiar.
The deal with the Scott/Mathauser brakes is that "back in the day" the Scott/Mathauser formula for brake pads was leagues better than any other brake pad. They had a few different styles of brake shoes- these were the "top of the line" for the threaded post shoes (there was another style [black aluminum] of threaded finned shoe)- and there were two different style of finned cantilever brake shoes.
That formula has been licensed to Kool Stop and has been in production for years as the Kool Stop salmon pad compound.