Kool Stop Campag Road Pad Holders & Extra Insert

Advantages: Excellent performance in wet/muddy conditions, rim friendly, good wear rates
Disadvantages: Pricier than the competition

...Stops patented plough tip. On the leading edge of the pad (i.e. the part that contacts the rim first), the pad has a raised edge. Its job is to act like a squeegee, cleaning muck of rim surface, allowing the brake pad behind to grip onto a clean rim. This feature also helps reduce rim wear by cleaning off grit and other abrasive particles. To further improve wet weather performance the pad has 2 triangular cutaway sections which work in a similar fashion to the grooves in tyre tread which force water to the outside of the tyre allowing the rubber to grip the road surface. How do they Perform? In the dry, you won't notice much difference between a Kool Stop pad and a good quality pad of another manufacturer. I certainly can't. However where you will notice the difference is in the wet. Their performance is excellent in the wet... Read review

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Advantages: quality and value
Disadvantages: none really!

...Obviously with the high amounts of pressure and heat which travel through brake pads and the almost implicit faith which you have to place in them when cycling you need to trust your brake pads and know that if you need to stop they’re going to have the performance there to help you slow down as quickly as you need. I've used the Kool Stop's for many years and have never been disappointed once by the value or quality and would even admit to sometimes being surprised that they ‘still’ don’t need replacing even when I cannot remember the last time I did. I use disk brakes on most of my bikes these days but the ones which do continue to use rim brakes will always use Kool Stop pads… Really impressed and would most definitely be my highest recommended rim brake pad...... Read review

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Advantages: Two double width straps
Disadvantages: No instep protection

...(on pads of this price range, the norm is still to have a narrow ankle strap), although the kneestrap is only one inches wide. However there is a solution to this, namely that you can buy cushion straps (leather inserts that you can attach to the knee strap, that will then give the feel of having a wide knee strap. These cost about four of five pounds, and whilst that won't turn you into a Marcus Trescothick overnight, if you do occupy the crease for long periods, even if only to deprive your opponents of that elusive bowling point, the backs of your knees will thank you for them. Do they actually do the job though? I wore these against the bowling machine, and whilst I was not having balls pinged down at high speed, I did not notice being sturck on the pads by fast deliveries. Against a spinner, when padding the ball away, the ball did... Read review

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