Got a new pair of Zipp 404 NSWs 6 weeks ago and swapped my pads out to the Zipp Platinum Pro pads as required. Have put about 750 miles on them and front brake pads are already in need of changing. Can anyone share their experience with the expected life expectancy for a pair of these pads? I ride on some fairly hilly roads so there is some braking involved, but they wore down a bit faster than expected.
Thanks
I think it’s more the aggressive brake track on the NSW wheels that’s causing the accelerated pad wear than it is specific to those pads. All the wheels with textured brake tracks will eat pads much faster, and if the PP pads are a softer material to begin with then that’ll just shorten their life span even more.
I have some Xentis wheels that have a slight texture to the brake track and while they do go through pads much faster than other wheels I’ve had they also stop a hell of a lot better as well, so I’ll take the added expense of changing out brake pads more often for the much improved braking.
Disc brakes.
Cheap pads.
Better braking.
I have plain old firecrests and they wear pads pretty quickly.
But the rims after some 48000km don’t show any wear at all.
Brake pad wear dropped dramatically when I went to 25mm tyres.
750 miles (1200km) that sounds about right.
I have not done much mileage on my NSWs, but compared to Firecrests, Evo Platinium pads, which are great, are eaten much quicker and I was not doing any long heavy breaking, mixture dry and wet hilly ish conditions. If the shorter pads’ lifespan is the price to pay for better breaking and it is better, so be it.
For curiosity, when finish Zipp pads I will try Black Prince to see how long they last.
750 miles (1200km) that sounds about right.
I have not done much mileage on my NSWs, but compared to Firecrests, Evo Platinium pads, which are great, are eaten much quicker and I was not doing any long heavy breaking, mixture dry and wet hilly ish conditions. If the shorter pads’ lifespan is the price to pay for better breaking and it is better, so be it.
For curiosity, when finish Zipp pads I will try Black Prince to see how long they last.
Same pads.
The Zipp pads are made by Swisstop for Zipp.
There was a time moratorium in place that Swisstop could not use the developed compound that has now expired.
Evo version is just a thinner pad for clearance with under BB brakes or wide rims.
Compound is the same.
http://www.swissstop.ch/rimbrakes/flashpro/platinumzipp/
http://www.swissstop.ch/rimbrakes/flashevo/blackprince/
Sorry cannot make the links work.
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Platinium pro evo are not the same as Black Prince.
Evo is only the profile, it is thinner and a little bit different swipping.
Black prince is a different colour. The compound is the same.
I have mixed and matched both types of pad on the same caliper, there is no difference.
Damn, I’d be replacing pads monthly.
You learn to not use the brakes so much when it costs that much to keep the supply of pads up.
Bring on the discs.