Sintered pads

leevil knievil

Fitted some new sintered pads to my rear caliper, going to work today and noticed I didn't have the same stopping power is this because they need bedding in or could this be a fault with the pads, got them off eBay, they were reasonably cheap is there a difference in pads or are one brand as good as the other.

386ka

leevil knievil wrote:

Fitted some new sintered pads to my rear caliper, going to work today and noticed I didn't have the same stopping power is this because they need bedding in or could this be a fault with the pads, got them off eBay, they were reasonably cheap is there a difference in pads or are one brand as good as the other.

They need proper bedding in. Also sintered pads take a little longer to bed in.

1mancity2

Take time to bed in as 386ka says, ebay? get them from Superstar components, cheap and good.

cooldad

Superstar also sell on Ebay. Sometimes easier.

leevil knievil

Ta very much.

Stu Coops

1mancity2 wrote:

Take time to bed in as 386ka says, ebay? get them from Superstar components, cheap and good.

Thanks for that tip mancity I needed to get some new pads myself paid 40 quid from CRC last time for two sets of pads for my Formula's, just paid 25 quid for two sets from supersonic

Well chuffed

1mancity2

Supersonic?

cooldad

1mancity2 wrote:

Supersonic?

Maybe he's branching out?

1mancity2

cooldad wrote:

1mancity2 wrote:

Supersonic?

Maybe he's branching out?

Maybe! what next hubs?

mfereborn

Ive been running superstar sintered pads in my XT's for a while now and although i'm not a fan of the brakes anyway the pads dont do it for me. Once theyre nice and warm the stopping power is immense, however until that point they are anything but good.

Unless you ride a lot of fast technical stuff i'd go kevlar or organic myself!

ricardo_smooth

i found SS sintered weren't good in my saints, like you say they took an age to warm up, and the way I ride they don't stay hot enough! Kevlars however I think are top notch and always use them now

supersonic

Sintered pads are do not slow you down as well as resin, but will last longer.

BG2000

Not sure if anyone can confirm, but if you change from resin to sintered pads (I'm assuming the OP has done this) you need to thoroughly clean the rotor before bedding in the new pads. This is to clear the old pad material from the rotor. In fact, I'm sure I've read that you should do this every time you replace pads, even if they're the same type. I've always followed this and give the rotors a thorough scrubbing with toothbrush/clean rag and IPA before bedding in the pads.

Anonymous

IPA? Mmm, beer.

leevil knievil

Did a bit of steep stuff downwards, pads now bedded in and seem to be doing the job, they do grab better the longer they seem to be on though