Swiss Stop Brake Pads

grantmungin

Anyone had experience with the Green Swiss Stop pads?

I commute 5,000 miles a year through all weather and get through a set of Mavic Cosmos rims per year. After some experimentation I setteld on Koolstop pads.

I've read a number of good reviews on Swiss Stop and spent £22 on a full set of Green Pads at the same time as I moved to some Open Pro rims, hoping for longer rim life.

Use for 1 week and 1 day in the rain, and I have the dreaded grey sludge. I also have an awful scraping sound that turned out to be lumps of aluminuim imbedded in the pad (presumably from my nice new rims).

Have to say I'm disappointed and have moved to a much nicer set of Koolstop Salmon pads.

Bianchi Boy

I bought some of these from wiggle a few weeks ago. Not tried them in the wet yet, but they seem fine in the dry.

I bought the campag fit ones, but a word of warning here. The bolt diameter was too big for the slot in the caliper, s I had to user the original bolts.

canamdad

Bought a pair several weeks ago to replace rear Shimano pads on my winter bike. Haven't had them out in the rain either but no problems with metal flakes from rim. They're incremental better than the ones I had on but exponentially more expensive!

gundersen

I have used a set for over a year on my Mavic brakes. In sun and rain. Never had anything to complain about.

JWSurrey

Ditto Gundersen - On my second set of rear pads now. Much better than my original Tektro pads.
Yes, doesn't stop the rims accumulating road gunk, and they don't last as long as some alternatives.
I do check them for flecks of metal and remove as necessary with a jeweller's screwdriver. Much less metal deposits than my harder compound/harder to stop Tektro pads.

simbil1

There is a swiss stop for delicate rims - can't remember which colour off the top of my head but not the greens.
I run the greens with no issues at all. After a few wet rides I re-dress the pad surface by scraping it with a knife - only takes a minute.

John C.

Just put a set of Koolstop pads on my Kenesis and thought they were brilliant in the dry, not tried in the wet yet and it's to early to say about ware rate. I too wore out a set of Cosmos rims inside a year with 105 pads.