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Titanium and gold brake pads for €169.95, did April Fools come early?
https://www.sinter.si/en/shop/sinter-elite-24
I guess they’ll make their way onto a few show bikes.
Paging tomd, paging tomd.
They makes so much sense.
I tend to stay away from products that have Elite in the description!
road, gravel and XC bikes with Shimano callipers using K Type pads: XTR 9100, XTR9000, Dura-Ace, Ultegra, 105, GRX.
Does this mean that gravel bikes are officially the new golf then?
Had you heard of the company before?
Are they only making a small number of these?
Has it produced news stories on lots of websites?
Job done.
Shimano make Ti plate backed pads… the only “news” here is a box, very little gold plating, and a price point set to help get free press and attention.
Hahahaha.
This isn't serious.
Those Spengler wheels look like a valve wheel. Proof that money doesn’t equal taste!
[insert "brake the bank" joke here]
Can I just check - is that a box with an led light in?
And, 4x Shimano pads = €80 / £80 these days...
I need these for my Pinnacle Iroko build.
And they will customise the box they come in for an extra €20, bargain. (Although the box customisation is more than I normally pay for pads so I'm clearly not the target market!).
And, 4x Shimano pads = €80 / £80 these days…
Are you sure you don't mean 4 pairs of Shimano brake pads?
Saw these pads a while ago https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/prime-shimano-carbon-road-disc-brake-pads/rp-prod183311 listed for £20, bling for the sake of it?
Currently ~£15.49, so at least now the price difference to standard backed pads isn't so extreme, but you still ain't going to see much of that bling once fitted inside the calipers. 😆
I think they’d make a great fun gift for someone (me) so don’t see the problem.
I suspect very few pairs will ever make it onto an actual bike.
I think they’d make a great fun gift for someone (me)
Would it not be more fun to get a set of regular pads plus the cash difference to spend on something useful like a nice bottle of Scotch?
No. I absolutely loath Scotch.