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Old 01-22-22 | 11:32 PM
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cpach
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Bikes: Too many. Giant Trance X 29, Surly Midnight Special get the most time.

What you see online may or may not be legit. There are multiple supply lines in the bike industry. It's been frustrating working at a shop when things are available to consumers (often parts intended for the OEM market moved into the gray market) but not available to consumers. I would personally rather use a well-known 3rd party brand (Kool Stop, for example) from a mainstream vendor than a possibly counterfeit pad from eBay or the like.

That pad shape is extremely common. They're on most entry level Shimano calipers and also most entry level Tektro, amongst a bunch of other smaller brands. I usually have stocked B01S/B03S because they're frankly normally inexpensive so why not go with the official Shimano parts, but given their unavailability I've been ordering a number of different 3rd party brands available through mainstream bicycle industry distributors like Koolstop and Tektro etc. They generally work fine.

M05 is, subtly, a slightly different shape.
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