What is interesting is, Modolo invested a lot towards their sinterized brake pads. It was pretty much on all their brakesets, except for their cheapest models. Plus they proudly printed "World Champion 1983" on them, for everyone to see....
I was surprised that they carried those brake pads for so many years and never really gave up on them, despite the bad feedback they were getting from cyclists, all that time.... There's still a lot of them selling for NOS at eBay. I wouldn't be surprised if there's still a whole warehouse worth of them, still around, somewhere in Italy....