why are disc pads so expensive
sturmey archer
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Cost of a pair of Avid pads nearly £20.Its scandalous that"s the price you"d pay for a cars brake pads. Two bits of metal with abit of stopping stuff on them,is there gold dust in there or what? Go back to using asbestos at least it was cheaper. 
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Cos it costs more to make them? The machines to manufacture them must be quite a new thing.0
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as with all things retail, the cost of manufacturing is only one factor. Once they establish that they can sell something profitably any sensible business will charge as much as they think the market will stand. People keep paying £20 a set, they'll keep charging £20.
Think also of the economics of scale. If you're making disc pads for a Ford Focus, you'll be planning production runs of hundreds of thousands, probably in China. Avid disc pads, probably not. Quite conceivable that they cost more to produce than those for the motor industry.0 -
Check out A2Z pads on ebay, very good.
The Blue Kevlar ones are good in all conditions and last well, I paid £11 for two pairs delivered0 -
And then if there's no patent protection, along comes a rival manufacturer who thinks "£20 a set? I could knock them out at half the price and still make a profit" so they do. So the consumer benefits from competition in the market.
And next you find some enterprising, often Chinese, company making them out of cheese instead of proper friction material, and knocking them out for a fiver a pair via some dodgy Ebay seller in a lock-up garage in Leicester. Not many repeat customers; they are mainly in hospital.0 -
Always use these guys....
http://superstar.tibolts.co.uk/product_ ... cts_id=136
At £23 for 4 pairs you cant go wrong...seem to last just as long too....just make sure you bed them in!!
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