Carbon rim brake pads

skinnydog
skinnydog Posts: 50
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Just bought a set of carbon wheels that have come with the same manufacturers carbon pads. Is there any reason to use these carbon pads with the rim - or can I use the carbon specific pads already in the shoes that I have. Seems a bit daft swapping carbon pads, with loads of life left in them, just to use the pads that come with these carbon wheels.
Any thoughts please??

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  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    edited June 2022
    Any carbon pads with any carbon wheels to the very, very best of all the MF hive mind.


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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • lesfirth
    lesfirth Posts: 1,382
    skinnydog said:

    Just bought a set of carbon wheels that have come with the same manufacturers carbon pads. Is there any reason to use these carbon pads with the rim - or can I use the carbon specific pads already in the shoes that I have. Seems a bit daft swapping carbon pads, with loads of life left in them, just to use the pads that come with these carbon wheels.
    Any thoughts please??

    I would try the bike with the new wheels and existing pads. If i did not like that set up i would change the pads. Am i overlooking some thing here or is it really that simple?
  • skinnydog
    skinnydog Posts: 50
    Thanks for the replies. I Didn’t know if the carbon lay-up of different wheels meant that a different carbon compound was more effective and less abrasive for that carbon breaking surface than another.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    Nah fam - massively over thinking it.

    Its a carbon bicycle wheel rim and two rubber blocks being pressed against it.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • skinnydog
    skinnydog Posts: 50
    An expensive one at that - and as I don’t live in the flatlands, I don’t wanna use a compound on a carbon brake block not designed for that carbon rim. 😁
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    I honestly, seriously wouldn't worry about it. You're massively overthing it.

    They don't design specific pads for specific wheels otherwise each manufacturer would have to make about 200 different sets.

    Its just a carbon bicycle rim.

    What wheels are they out of interest? Where are you riding?

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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.

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