Originally Posted by
PeteHski
I still don’t understand why you would want to deliberately reduce your rear brake feel. Why not just use organic pads front and rear? If conditions are too harsh for those then switch to sintered pads.
Oh I thought it was a wear thing to use metallic in the rear. If you're going fast enough it's not unheard of to go through a set of organic/resin pads in a day, especially if the conditions are bad and you're doing mainly lift riding / downhill. Since the rear brake is the one you use by far the most it'd make sense to use a harder wearing pad there.
I don't ride nearly fast enough to worry about such matters. Nor do we have such mountains, where one could chew threw pads. But with the excess power my brakes have metallic works great.