Is It Me Or Are Heatsink Pads Expensive?

[trials_noob]

Just compare brands for price,

A set of Zoo's, echo's, koxx-bloxx etc are probably £18 plus postage

Heatsink blues, snowy's are £14 plus free postage!

Heatsink reds come in cnc backings for £25 then refills are only £8 so there's now way heatsink are really expensive.

They are proven to be great quality and they are a lot cheaper than the 'big boys'

[liam-pantera]

i think that heatsink pads are amazing pricewise but there all abit to soft for me, and i had some of the second batch blues with the tacky glue stuff in the middle and i hated them ,but i love them now there bak to normal but still harder pads for the win

[weebryan]

What other re-fills can you get for the cnc backings i only saw the red ones on the site

[Gaz M]

Steve you should bring back those veery first pads you made, the yellow ones with shite loads of material on them. i can remember them being absoloutely amazing on hard rims. remember tom news brake at knabb quarry november 2004 it echoed thruought (sp?) the quarry!. i think it was and when joeb put some on the front and immediately went over the bars. soo loud. Were poo on soft rims though lol

Edited September 9, 2006 by Gaz M

[Ben Geary]

What about them Honig pads, God they are the best on a Dead grind/Smooth rim, Loud as FooooooK.

Wish they were still available

[B.E.A.U]

Steve you should bring back those veery first pads you made, the yellow ones with shite loads of material on them. i can remember them being absoloutely amazing on hard rims. remember tom news brake at knabb quarry november 2004 it echoed thruought (sp?) the quarry!. i think it was and when joeb put some on the front and immediately went over the bars. soo loud. Were poo on soft rims though lol

are you mental. those pads were lke butter. They could be a reason to me braking my ribs. But my mate has had the red pads with cnc bakings and they were f**king hot. I may get some when i get some moneys. Yellows thanks god they aint made no more.

[Sam Nichols]

Christ, do you people not understand that his STANDARD pads are still low priced and damn good value. It's only the trick CNC'd ones that you pay more for!

Idiots.

[T-Limburn]

however service at the moment isnt the best i am sorry to say

tomorrow will be four weeks since i ordered my coustsinks...and they have not shown up!

three weeks ago i was told they were on the way

two weeks ago i was told he had no time

last week he said they would be with me soon...

just thought i would edit to say that i have been trying to avoid putting this up on the forum as steve has a good reputation as heatsink bikes, but four weeks seems silly.

Tom

Edited September 9, 2006 by T-Limburn

[Heatsink]

Hi Tom,

As I was saying to you the other day, I was sure I had sent the pads out to you originally. I did check my record book after our last message and they were ticked off. I wasn't aware they hadn't arrived until you gave me a shout. I assumed they had been lost in the post (not the first time for Royal Mail) or the address had been written down wrongly by me.

I apologise for the delays sorting out this problem, and the good news is I am sending out replacements and will include some extras to make up for any delays

There was a blip with send out speeds again recently due to our efforts to sell our current house. It looks like we've secured a buyer so that's great news. I really want to get back on top of orders so I can get send out back to being as swift as you like

Must get back to making pads

Steve

however service at the moment isnt the best i am sorry to say

tomorrow will be four weeks since i ordered my coustsinks...and they have not shown up!

three weeks ago i was told they were on the way

two weeks ago i was told he had no time

last week he said they would be with me soon...

just thought i would edit to say that i have been trying to avoid putting this up on the forum as steve has a good reputation as heatsink bikes, but four weeks seems silly.

Tom

[Brisa]

Hi Tom,

As I was saying to you the other day, I was sure I had sent the pads out to you originally. I did check my record book after our last message and they were ticked off. I wasn't aware they hadn't arrived until you gave me a shout. I assumed they had been lost in the post (not the first time for Royal Mail) or the address had been written down wrongly by me.

I apologise for the delays sorting out this problem, and the good news is I am sending out replacements and will include some extras to make up for any delays

There was a blip with send out speeds again recently due to our efforts to sell our current house. It looks like we've secured a buyer so that's great news. I really want to get back on top of orders so I can get send out back to being as swift as you like

Must get back to making pads

Steve

Good stuff

[Heatsink]

Good stuff

Another quick one. I admit things have been at meltdown recently, and the group of riders waiting for pads is testimony to that, but I will nail it and get back to the send out I'd expect myself to receive

Thanks to all who continue to show faith in HSB. I have to be careful to not overextend since I don't have the financial foundation of the big boys, and neither do I have the time, but I hope that my efforts to bring out more affordable pads and innovative stuff others aren't doing is appreciated.

Here's some bling for you to brighten up the thread:

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Steve

[Si-man]

Pimpy.

Do you only do the anodising for custom orders or are you getting a limited number made???

So say if someone wanted red parts, would that get done as a special order plus some extra money from the buyer??

[Egg Fried Rice]

But where?

on the lever. no spongeyness, just a solid bite onto the wheel that you can really feel.

JK

[Heatsink]

Pimpy.

Do you only do the anodising for custom orders or are you getting a limited number made???

So say if someone wanted red parts, would that get done as a special order plus some extra money from the buyer??

I've had a small batch of Boosters, Vees and CNC Magura backings hand polished first (for ultimate shininess when anodised) and then gold anodised. The result is impressive, but with it being carried out in the UK it was expensive! I certainly won't be releasing anything in 5 different colours anytime soon I'll have the gold limited edition stuff up to buy on my site before the end of the weekend, and I will have to add a small amount onto the price to cover the extra work that went in.

It could get quite time consuming for me organising custom anodising, time I should be spending staying ontop of pad orders, but I am quite happy to hook any riders up with the place that did the work for me so they can arrange exactly the colour they'd like. I had an Echo Supa stem anodised too, so my bike's going to be peppered with gold Why not gather together a variety of aluminium parts and get them sent off together to be colour co-ordinated in some individual colours?

Steve

[T-Limburn]

Hi Tom,

As I was saying to you the other day, I was sure I had sent the pads out to you originally. I did check my record book after our last message and they were ticked off. I wasn't aware they hadn't arrived until you gave me a shout. I assumed they had been lost in the post (not the first time for Royal Mail) or the address had been written down wrongly by me.

I apologise for the delays sorting out this problem, and the good news is I am sending out replacements and will include some extras to make up for any delays

There was a blip with send out speeds again recently due to our efforts to sell our current house. It looks like we've secured a buyer so that's great news. I really want to get back on top of orders so I can get send out back to being as swift as you like

Must get back to making pads

Steve

ok cheers, i wasnt meaning to have a go or anything, purely because there are so many happy HSB customers which is why i tried to avoid talking about it on the forum, and i appreciate the problems you have been having and the fact that you have been making the effort to reply to pm's and threads like this one. the only reason i hadnt got back to you sooner was that i was on me hols.

on another note (the one on which the topic was supposed to be...

i think that heatsink pads are very reasonably priced, since the plastic backings pads are under £20, just like other competing companies, the only thing that makes HSB seem expensive from some angles is the CNC backed pads, but these are obviously going to be more expensive as they are metal as opposed to plastic. in the long run this saves money as you can then just buy the material and re-use the backings which is a very original and awesome idea.

thanks alot steve,

Tom