I’m loathe to spend the, to my mind mental, money on Shimano fin design pads.

I couldn’t be happier with my brakes and don’t want to ruin the excellence for a few pounds on pads, but what do you run and are you happy with them.

My bike’s heavy, I’m light. I’ve never felt the brakes fade; I do have a 203mm floating rotor at the front and 180mm rear.

Opinions?

Thanks

I’ve never used finned pads in mine, always shimano non finned or 3rd party.

No issues.

Some suggestions here

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/whats-flavour-of-the-month-for-brake-pads

Never used the finned pads myself. I’ve had a touch of fade on them once and once only, at the very end of riding down the Llanberis path from the top of Snowdon, which is about as long a descent as you’ll find in the UK. 180/160 Ice Tech rotors, relatively light bike and light bloke. I think I’m currently using EBC pads, they work great.

Sintered superstar for me

Kevlar Superstar here

Superstar here.

Thanks everyone.

Looks like superstar are the way to go.

Uberbike ones

I have XT on three bikes.

For usual UK slop and grinding paste, superstar sintered.

For Alps trips on a big bike or something like Fort Bill DH, I haven’t found anything to better original Shimano organics (with or without fins).

Just got back from a week in Finale and also had XT on a big bike there, this time with Ashima semi-metalics. Very impressed with those and will give them a try back home now.