Carbon rims: Wear? What brake pads?
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i've never had worn out carbon rims, they would have been destroyed when jumping hurdles or hitting roots at high speed before they wear out from braking. best solution so far is yellow swiss stop brakepads, but i don't know if they're available for v-brakes to fit your custom holders.
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braking power with swissstop pads is very good. the only problem is that i have different threads for different grounds(dry, frozen, sand, etc.), and not all my wheelsets are carbon rims. so if i have green swissstop on the bike i plan usind with alu rims and then have to switch, it takes another 5 minutes to change brake pads...yellow swissstop brake good with alloy rims, but wear out faster. best solution would be to have like 7 or 8 sets of lightweight wheels, only alu rim would be the road wheel to use for the trainer to warm up before the race...