Road Bike Brake Blocks- advice please

tonyme
tonyme Posts: 3
edited October 2010 in Road buying advice
Hi , Ive got ultegra brakes with Shimano standard blocks- either im too fat or they dont seem that effective , are there any demon upgrades available please? panic . Exmoor beast on Sunday coming . thanks in advance.

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  • dmch2
    dmch2 Posts: 731
    There have been loads of topics on this recently. Basically koolstop (salmon I think?) or (for a bit more money) Swissstop green pads should sort you out nicely.

    Changing the callipers won't make much difference, chaning brake blocks will :)
    2010 Trek 1.5 Road - swissstop green, conti GP4000S
    2004 Marin Muirwoods Hybrid
  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    Tony, if you cannot get some replacements in time then PM me. I have a couple of spare sets of the Koolstop salmons (it's a long story) and could let you have a set FOC. Meet up at registration on saturday if that helps. All the best on Sunday in any case, weather looks a bit better than it did.
  • chrisw12
    chrisw12 Posts: 1,246
    Messing around with brake blocks on the morning of an important event... :)
  • tonyme
    tonyme Posts: 3
    chrisw12 wrote:
    Messing around with brake blocks on the morning of an important event... :)
    well its my first training ride of the winter and i thought it would be a good try out ,Im going to start lst and finish last .

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