Recommend Brake Pads?
 

1100 miles and I noticed last night my brake pads are getting really low.
Any idea for good replacement pads or shoes or whatever you call them?
These are for the Gary Fisher Tassajara (Mtn Bike - regular V brakes, not disc).

Thanks!

People round here have recommended the Kool Stop salmon colored pads. Thats what I put on my mtn bike. Good performance, squeak is gone.

Koolstops. Black if you ride in dry weather mostly. Black/Red if you ride mixed. Salmon if you ride a lot of wet weather but those wear out faster.

Another vote for Kool Stops.

Kool stop salmon here.

kool-stop blacks.

but definitely salmon if you ride in the rain more than 5x/year, which I don't.

You have no choice but to buy koolstop. The council has made their recommendations.
But, if you want some cool looking brakes, also consider jagwire.

kool stops are cool!

but i never found any brakepads to be outright TERRIBLE... some just wear a little faster or don't stop you quite as well.

one thing you might wanna consider is cartridge brakepads. the pads themselves are removable and you just replace the rubber part... no need to take the pad-bodies off the brakes, or re-adjust (except maybe to lengthen your cable a little to make up for the new pads).

and yes koolstop makes cartridge pad inserts. (i buy whatevers cheap got two sets of SRAM cartridge replacements for 7 bucks recently, currently i got the koolstops).

haha, ok. Koolstop it is. ;)
I only see black ones at Performance though....

However the one time that you need to stop quickly in wet weather, you'll wish you had the salmons. $6 or new bike ... $6 or hospital stay ... definitely spend the six bucks.

found them at CambriaBike.com for $6.75.
Ordering tomorrow. Thanks! :)

That's the price for the cantilever type Eagle Claw II, unless you mean $6.95 for the other kind. Your v-brakes use cantilever posts? http://www.speakeasy.net/~bkr/whaaaaaaaat.gif

oops, you are correct sir. not paying attention.
hey, what about those dual compound pads???