Stupid brakes question

shoulder_of_orion

Hi sorry for this, but I am struggling a bit.

This is my bike:
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/ ... 5-09-32720

The brakes have worn out so I was wiggling some new brakes and a load of other gear. But I cannot for the life of me figure out from wiggle site, which brake blocks to buy.

I was going to go for these babies:
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Shima ... 000000898/

But I want to be sure I am buying the right ones.

Can anyone let me know which brake replacements I can choose from?

il_principe

You're good with those.

prawny

Anythin that doesn't say campag on should be fine, I had the same problem when looking for pads for my tektro brakes, everything is shimano or campag specific, turns out shimano fits the ones that aren't campag.

Bassjunkieuk

Best thing to do would be to have a look at the existing brakes. I'd have hoped on a bike like that you'd have the cartridge system. You should be able to tell fairly easily as you'll have a little screw (usually a small allen key type) on the brake block holder towards the rear, once this is removed you can push the brake block rubber part out and slide in a new one.

If you do have that system I'd strongly recommend grabbing yourself a set of the koolstop salmon pads like these:

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Kool_ ... 300005952/

Much better performance then the standard Shimano blocks plus they are great in the winter as the Salmons are better in the wet and the "plough" tip does a mighty fine job of clearing road crud off the rims as you brake, reducing wear on the rims and brake block :-)

shoulder_of_orion

cheers guys. I've gone for the shimano ultegra ones as I don't think I have the cartridge system as I checked the brakes very closely at lunch - I had seen the kool stop ones and thought they looked good....