I been reading up on brake pads and decided to go to the local bike shop tomorrow and pick up a set of Kool Stop salmon pads. Got the ide from the Sheldon Brown site. If that does not make the braking any better I will upgrade to the dual pivot calipers, but this bike is running 27" old school Araya rims and not sure if new calipers will fit an old bike and also mount properly through the old fork.