See heres the thing. I know it won't work correctly or as effectively, however, my local bike shop said with different brake pads made for carbon wheels the paint won't get messed up. I hardly believed that so I came here to the "bike knowledge center". I guess partly bad timing with all the same posts and partly cuz I was lazy and didn't search. Sorry for getting anyone in a tizzy. The search button and I just had a talk, he is my friend now.