The newer sort with servo wave levers (and older lx - xtr)?
If you do - what replacement pads do your ecommend and whats so good about em?
The pads are the sort with an eyelet at one end and a hook at the other!
I just use Shimano, seem to last well.
sintered or organic?
Sintered
the pads that came with my SLX were a bit shitty. ok on the back but lacking ooomph on the front. stuck a sintered BBB (cheapo-ish brand) pad in there and performance is much better.
with my old deores i used to use Shimano's own and never had a problem.
Shimano. Sintered.
Have SLX and XT and ride in a fairly shitty part of the country which normally eats pads all year round. I use superstar sintered, They last and work as well as any other make that I have tried and they are also not too pricey.
a2z or BBB sinterd
Didn't you ask this Q LAST week as well ROFL?? God i'll be glad when you've got them set up and bedded in.
Using shimano, got a set of goodridge sintered to go in when they finally wear out.
always used SSC in mine, consistently good performance and last just as well as the shimano originals in them.
I use ashima semi metallic in the rear and ebc red on the front. Seem pretty good in all conditions and the ashima last an age.
Bikefridge 3x life ceramics
siperstar components pads work well.
one side resin one side sintered works well.
Ive got some new deore, the 2010 ones, yep they look nice, but performance is poor, well was, i popped some discopads sintered in and loads better. Not as good as my older hayes 9's but much better!
always sintered and pretty much any brand, I have a job lot of Shimano ones at the mo, but I;ve happily used Goodridge, Fibrax, Clark and a few others. I probably wouldn't buy non branded off ebay tho.
Oh - EBC work fine too.
Superstar organic, after several months they seem to have lost their bite but still plenty of pad left.
Putting the lack of bite down to being carted arround on a bike rack getting slowly covered in diesel fumes.
I use Ashima SOS pads in my lovely XT brakes. Perreck!
Any pad has worked fine for me if not contaminated.
The thing that really worked for sheer power regardless of pad was a bigger front disc.
I even chucked a 180mm on my hack bike on the front -stops brilliantly in the wet using the sintered pads.
I was a big fat guy then and now as a medium fat guy I find I can use 160mm 20kg made a difference! lol
I rode with a guy who was 6ft 6 and probably 220lbs on 160mm discs and tried different pads and thought shimano were poo as he couldnlt stop quick till he swapped to 203mm.
My organic pads had great heat resistance but lacked bite and wore out pretty quick.
I use metal type pads for the lifespan.
Had Hope, had Avid, now have XT servo wave on 3 bikes & they are excellent.
did you read the question dickie?
Shimano ones.
Sintered in the back, Resin in the front.
Tried cheaper pads. Went back to Shimano.
SB
i currently have some A2Z organic ones in as i have found the SSC sintered ones to hard in the dryer weather though they will be going back in for winter. I run xt brakes.
XT M765 with Superstar organic in the front and some pads I got cheap off ebay (Disco I think) out back
I have a mixture of LX, XT (180f/160r) and an XTR set with the XT servo-wave levers (200f/160r) over 5 bikes. My brother runs Deore. All of them work brilliantly. The bigger rotors make a difference, and the servo-waves do too (I ran 180 before Wotans forced the 200mm disc upon me). I run 200f/200r with XT on the DH bike.
In terms of pads, I have a supply of Superstar and A2Z blue pads, as well as other random discount pads. I never pay any attention to compound really in the UK, although I'd look for organic for big Alpine/Canadian/Spanish descents.
A simple common pad format is great, and all work very well indeed.
I use Shimano deore 535 with Discobrakes sintered pads, plenty of power and modulation