carbon wheels squealing badly

paul_mck

Hi all - have a pair of full carbon wheels with yellow swisstop pads and the squealing is driving me mental.

Any tips on reducing or eliminating the noise? Feel like a plonker pulling up at lights.

Wheels are unknown origin, chinese affairs I presume.

Cheers.

harry-s

I had the same problem with the Swissstop yellow, - cork pads are fine.

jgsi

Heel in the non drive side pad and toes in the drive side.....
ok before this gets silly... either spend £10s on overpriced Swisstops or get the suggested cork pads off Ebay for 4.99 8 pairs.

trailflow

My Wiggle Lifeline blue pads squeal alot less the than the origiinal black pads i got with my carbons wheels. They improve braking immensely too. The compound is soft and feels alot nicer to the rim. They are a bargain for 4 for a fiver. I recommend them.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/lifeline-perfor ... pack-of-4/

paul_mck

will give them a blast, going to try toeing in the pads and see if that helps on the way home this eve

sungod

make sure rims/pads are clean, and as above set toe-in

tbh i don't worry about brake noise, it can help warn dozey pedestrians so that they look around and don't step out in front of me