Kool Stop Thinline Salmons for my bikes. Mike Varley of Black Mountain made a pretty good case for their use within this handy blog post from several years ago, 'Get the most out of your canti brake…': <https://blackmtncycles.com/get-the-most-out-of-your-canti-brake/>
*Pad thickness: Thick vs. thin* *Thick pads are squishy. When you apply the brakes on a bike with thick pads by squeezing the lever, the pad hits the rim and as you squeeze, you might feel mush. Part of that is the pad compressing. To solve this issue, thin brake pads are immensely helpful. The KoolStop Thinline pad works great. Very little flex/compression going on at the brake pad if you are running Thinline pads. Probably the main reason Paul Components supplies their brakes with these pads. But the thin pads will wear out faster. So what. This simply means that the brake adjustment – the pad to rim contact – will be optimal longer. You’re not going to have the pads wearing at an angle as you would with thick pads and the chances of the pad diving under the rim are greatly reduced. * Compressionless housing makes a noticeable difference in braking performance and 'feel', it seems pretty reasonable to expect the same principal should apply to brake pads as well.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
