put some new pads on all 3 discs on one of the bikes.KEVLAR, sumo brand off ebay.come and am impressed.around 40 bucks for 3 sets of pads... 2 front, 1 back. braking is good, no grinding and good feel. freight was a little slow but worth the wait.i recommend them to other riders.
Hey risky Is this your 1st use of Kevlar pads, the more I read about them on the net the less impressed I've become. The amount of people not happy with the performance is like 2 to 1 against. I'm just curious why this would be?????
first time i have used them and am impressed so far. have read life is shorter than sintered metal but less damage to rotor.think sintered are more savage but the kevlar on the 600 impressed me so much have ordered a rear set for the 750.
i got Goodridge Kevlars on my ZXR, they make a little more dust being organic, but never seem to fade and keep my rotors in good niche. no complaints here
If the pads were well made, they should be ok. Some of the Chinese made pads wear out like butter, produces a lot of dust (and that will make heaps of noise) and driver people mad. But if they are well done, they should be good. I know some people only use sintered on their 250cc. They need it because of the way they ride. Most of the time a 250cc is moving, it's doing a low to medium speed, and organic and kevlar pads do the job just fine. But if you like to ride fast, brake hard, then take off fast again, you will notice a big improvement using sintered pads. As mentioned above, the harder the pads, the more wear you get on the rotors. Organic are cheap to replace, and they are easy on the discs. Don't know if I ever mentioned, but I do stock MetalGear pads, which are affordable and excellent quality. They produce 4 types of pads: organic, kevlar, sintered and sports sintered. Although I only stock organic and sintered, as kevlar is not very popular, and sports sintered is only for track bikes. http://metalgear.com.au/page/10/Brake_Pads.html
