Originally Posted by
Panthers007
As for ceramic-specific brake-pads - Don't. I have a set of Mavic Open Pro Ceramic w/ Campy hubs on my racing-machine. I use Salmon Kool Stops and they work just fine. Stop you on a dime.
Yep, I wanted to make sure he DIDN'T have pads intended for ceramic rims as they will shred plain Al rims in short order.
If his bike is old and the brake pads the same age, they are very likely age-hardened and both inneffective and damaging to the rims.