Which are better?
Have always used sintered but I could be wrong?

Hope sintered all year round in my experience. Organic have more immediate bite but are less consistent in the wet – and it rains in the summer too!

I had my first ride on a set of Hope sintered pads last night. I was expecting them to squeal and not be as good as the organic pads that I’m used to. In fact (on a very wet ride) there was hardly any squeal and plenty of bite. I may well switch to sintered all year round.

Kevlar for me, as they work well in all conditions where I live (South Downs). If you are riding somewhere very sandy or gritty then sintered might be a better choice.

Really happy with SS Kevlar pads. No idea what they are like in wet muddy conditions though as I don’t get much round these parts!

I got a batch of SS Kevlar pads when they sold out of sintered. I wouldn’t buy them again for my riding, they last better than organic but still only two or three wet rides.

Sintered for me, uberbike ones are pretty good and a fraction of the price of the bigger brands to

Hope sintered all year round +1

If it’s Hope brakes you have then use their sintered pads, they’re ace.

Otherwise, either will do. Kevlar can be very noisy in the cold and doesn’t last as long in mud (and gritty mud can murder them) but can be a bit more powerful and immediate than sintered. I use kevlar all year round just because I’m lazy but then I don’t generally ride in places with killer mud.

Sintered all year round, usually cheapos from Uberbike.

Hopes and sintered all year round

Am I right in thinking that sintered pads should squeal more when it’s wet?

As I mentioned above, I have Hope X2 brakes on both bikes and the one running organic pads definitely makes more noise when it’s wet than the one running sintered pads. I’m just wondering if I need to check the setup of these.

In the bottomless filth of an East Lancs winter, Kevlar pads can have a life expectancy you’d need specialist equipment to actually measure. Fractions of a millisecond

ss kevlar pads last ages ime riding in the cannock grinding paste.how do you bed your pads in.

SS Kevlar – cheap enough to just keep replacing even in crud.

Sintered bug the hell out of me now. Squeal far too much in the wet, and not as nice feeling as Kev in the dry.

Though if the current weather remains the same for a while I may slap in the spare sintered pads I’ve got as will admit that there’s a level of wet & crud that Kev starts to wear too fast. Up until recently I’ve not had to go sintered over the last year.

SS Kevlar can’t manage 25 miles of wet exmoor in my experience, so I’ve switched to SS sintered all year now. The bite is not as good as the Kevlar when it’s dry but generally I find enough bite on the sintered and the limiting factor is tyre grip, especially when it’s wet, so it doesn’t make any odds on how good the bite is.
I also find really hard braking will get some heat into them and stop the squealing when they’re wet.