I was looking for reviews on a specific rim (Sun CR18) and ended up on a
Thorn forum where users kept mentioning that they were experiencing shorter
rim life as Shimano brake pads were eating up the brake surface much faster
- and switching brake pads made a significant difference.
I'm curious
1) Too many variables. You’re last paragraph illustrates this.
2) I’ve been using Kool Stop dura and v-type pads and don’t recall having a
chunk of hard debris seat in a groove. The shape of the grooves and the angled
“plow” tip would seem to lessen the chance. I can understand the concern on
No idea why the grooves continue to get in. but I always listen and if my
brakes make noise, I stop and knife the offending rock out. I find classic
shaped Kool-Stop brakes seem to attract fewer rocks — or the pads like Riv.
sells (different than Kool-Stop, but similar braking power in all weath
During regular Winter time off-season maintenance I noticed that one of the
rims on one of my bikes showed a shallow but nonetheless significant score
mark around the entire braking area surface. Upon closer inspection of the
brake pads I found a small rock stuck in one of the pad grooves (the
