[Closed] V-brake pads on road calipers ???

My road calipers have different fittings to my old v-brakes. I think road calipers normally have a wider gap in the arms compared to v's.

I tried pulling all the pads out of the brake holders and trying to swap the mounting thread from one pad to the other and they weren't compatible so you might not get a nice swap, but to be fair my mate uses v pads on his road bike and has a gap where the v pad thread goes through the caliper but he hasn't died yet. It's on his winter bike so we tend ot be out in crappy weather so a little more pad seems to help him (and they were cheap!).

works fine.even better than road pads.have to change the holders obv.
put some on my brompton.
However,I had to put road pads on v brakes for a trekking bike,as the power was just too much,it endoed constantly.

I run V-pads in my tourer's cantis, seems to work alright, figured a bigger pad with more grooves might work better when the bikes fully loaded in the wet (no danger of endoing with 50ltr of luggage and 100kg of me on the back, although I do sometimes worry for the forks!)