Re: [CR]brake pads for wood rims

(Example: Production Builders:Frejus)

Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:35:38 +0100
From: "Sergio Servadio" <servadio@df.unipi.it>
To: Phil Sieg <triodelover@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]brake pads for wood rims
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cc: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Phil Sieg wrote:
> I've just picked up a set of 26" wheels with Cerchio Ghisallo wood
> rims. I've searched the archives on the subject of brake pads and
> there didn't seem to be a consensus. Now it's a new year, maybe
> there are a few more data points.

May I throw in my direct experience on the topic? After equipping one of my bikes with (home-made) wooden rims I had this very same problem, to choose what pads.

Usual Campagnolo rubber pads did wear fast. I made leather ones and I descended Croce d'Aune onto Pedavena: they barely got me to the Brewery alive. The riders behind me had been smelling the burnt organic material, as if it were flesh. I was promised some pads made for carbon fiber rims, but nobody ever kept the promise. I would hate to spend so much money, just to test them.

So, I decided I'll use that bike on not so mountainous courses, or at least on those that require just feathering the brakes, no more than that.

If anyone knows a (cheap) solution to the problem I'd be more than happy to hear.

Sergio
Pisa