Originally Posted by vobopl
Yeah, right. From Wikipedia on F1 brakes:
Brakes
Brake discs on the Williams FW27.
Disc brakes consist of a rotor and caliper at each wheel. Expensive carbon-carbon (the same material used on the Space Shuttle) composite rotors - introduced by the Brabham team in 1976 - are used instead of steel or cast iron because of their superior frictional, thermal, and anti-warping properties, as well as significant weight savings.
You might want to search for airplane brakes as well.
You need to research bike brakes a little more... lol
The carbon braking surface on F1 brakes and the surface on carbon bike wheels is totally different.
I have carbon wheels on my road bike and I've used cork pads and zipp pads (made by koolstop)
Stick with normal pads on alum rims, cork really sucks on it and zipps only kinda suck on it.
braking on carbon rims is ****tier all the time.. no matter what. it just doesnt have the same feel.