Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-crg!seismo!rochester!stuart From: stuart@rochester.ARPA Newsgroups: net.cycle Subject: Squeaky Brakes Message-ID: <21860@rochester.ARPA> Date: Thu, 23-Oct-86 02:15:48 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.21860 Posted: Thu Oct 23 02:15:48 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Oct-86 03:17:59 EDT Sender: stuart@rochester.ARPA Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept., Rochester, NY Lines: 20 From: Stuart Friedberg When the first set of pads wore out on my Yamaha 550 Seca, I got highly recommended Vesparo (spelling botch! spelling botch!) pads. Unfortunately, they squealed like seventeen pigs caught in a trash compressor. Worse, they got HOT and faded, even when riding in the rain! The tentative diagnosis is/was that the pads were too hard for my disk. Yeah, disk brake disks come in a variety of alloys and/or surface finishes. I told the dealer to take the Vesparo pads back as unusable. This left me with the question of what to buy. I had to have SOME front brakes :-). Yamaha pads that fit my bike come in several compounds. I got the softest ones they supply. No squeals, and enough friction to lock the front wheel on anything but a perfectly clean surface. The price is that the soft pads wear much faster, but they're still good for several years the way I drive (long miles, but no racetracks). Stu Friedberg {seismo, allegra}!rochester!stuart stuart@rochester