Front Brake Pads

[on-a-mission]

hey i need some new brake pads for my front v brake. they take the threaded style pads. could you post a link or saw what they are called and where to buy em.

i wanted some coolstops but couldn't find ne (Y)

cheers

[Mark W]

Personally, I'd go for either V-Flies or CRV's, both from Plazmatic. Unfortunately, no-one actually has CRV's in stock, so you'd have to buy some CRM's, strip the material out, then put it in a V-brake backing such as the Heatsink V-pad backing.

But yeah, those two are really good.

[CurtisRider]

spanish flies upfront, they really are tremendous :lol: crvs i found were a little too powerful and made front wheel moves a bitch (they are ebst at the back), and heatsinks i found to be below par (Y)

i run a grind upfront, so i cant say how these perform on a smooth rim, except on a chrome bmx rim where the spanish flies win again :lol:

[Brian Bleech]

koolstop bmx pads - dual compound - are tha shizzle as snoop dogg would say. I have some on at the moment and they are really good. Running them on a smooth rim and work in the wet. miles better than the echo vee pads i had on before.

[Stan Shaw]

Out of interest, how have people found Plazmatic V-Flys on a smooth rim?

[Caleb]

Crazily powerfull in the dry, crazilt shite in the wet . . .

[munkee]

To be fair though its to be expected, especially since plazmatic beleive in using specific pads for specific conditions. Your never going to have a all rounder pad in the dry beating a plazmatic if you get me. But then an all round would be better in the wet.

[ScotchDave]

My CRV's on my bmx are bloody awful in the wet too, not that great in the dry either, wonder what's best. :blink:

[CurtisRider]

are you running a chrome rim on you bmx? if so no pads will work in the wet-tis the way it is :lol: ive found that spitting on you finger and wiping it on the rim makes the brake uber sharp-they seem to love that little bit of moisture but not too much (as in soaked!) what brake are you running? with what cable and lever? cos it really makes 1 hell of a difference :-

make sure your rim is clean, dont ever expect it to stop you ultra well when its caked in dust and poo-jif/cif/washing up liquid works a treat in gettin off the scum :blink:

[ScotchDave]

It's a hombre, into a lower dual cable that came on my fuzz, into an oryg giro and into snafu cables up top. It feels great, works ace in the dry, but when it rains, it's awful and yeah it is a chrome rim. :blink:

[CurtisRider]

sounds an ok setup to me, get a mono lever, evolver rear brake and a linear slick cable for a damn fine but cheap brake :lol:

chrome rims just dont work in the wet, tis the main reason why itll never catch on for trials-if it was as good in the wet as it is in the dry, everybody would use them :-

ooo and dump the giro, they always take power out :blink:

[mat hudson]

nah, just try and get one of the stiffer machined giro's

[ScotchDave]

I think I'll try my new heatsink blues on it, see if there better.