Has anyone tried the new salmon-coloured KoolStops that Sheldon is promoting? Are they made using a softer (i.e., better-braking, faster-wearing) compound?

By the way, I have not experienced what I would consider to be inordinately fast wear with regular black KoolStops. Sorry, Alex, I gave up my sharp-looking, aerodynamic Shimanos for klunky-looking KoolStops after I had trouble stopping my Bianchi on a 12-percent downslope. My LBS owner, who sold me both sets of pads, told me my first-generation Campy calipers are the problem -- "It's amazing how bad some of the old stuff was." Perhaps I should trade up to the higher lever advantage of modern dual-pivot sidepulls.