I took my Disk Trucker brakes apart today and cleaned them thinking I could get some better stopping performance. After the clean I am not any better off. The brakes aren't in bad shape, they work OK but dont feel like they have the stopping performance they should have.

The bike has 3000-3500mi and the pads are the originals. Fronts roughly .1550" rears roughly .1560" for pad thickness. They seem to still have plenty of life left.

I used auto brake cleaner to scrub both rotors and pads. I used white ceramic grease for the spindles and bearings. I reassembled and got the calipers aligned again. I have the cables adjusted to where I have the brake lever actuation I want (IE - in place of closing the spindles on either side to take up slack - spindles are all the way out).

The pads in the picture are the rears. The fronts are the same, other than an extra thousanth of an inch wear.

Thoughts?