What about descending steep hills off pavement in the rain? This is where I have found the 559s less-than-pleasing. Can I say it would have been better with another (non-disc) brake? Not sure.
Will On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM Piaw Na <[email protected]> wrote: > I second the Kool-Stop brakepads. I never bother with the OEM pads and > always swap them out for Kool-stop Salmon pads immediately. The one > exception are the Swiss-Stop pads that come with SRAM dual pivots which are > also very good (but cost a lot more!) I've never found the Tektro 559 > brakes to be less than necessary even when descending steep hills off > pavement. > > On Monday, August 25, 2025 at 11:03:20 PM UTC-7 Evan E. wrote: > >> >> Kool-Stop / Yokozuna / Scott-Mathauser salmon pads: >> >> >> https://www.rivbike.com/products/yokozuna-55mm-brake-pad-insert-salmon-15143?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=98728489b&pr_rec_pid=7405592705&pr_ref_pid=758459400303&pr_seq=uniform >> >> OR >> >> Kool-Stop e-bike brake pads: >> >> >> https://www.rivbike.com/products/brake-pads-kool-stop-e-bike?variant=8666755268719 >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/gNgexi0ENZo/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6fbc22af-2aa8-4ea1-9bf4-059de291fb6en%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6fbc22af-2aa8-4ea1-9bf4-059de291fb6en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAFwrbzqOwm%3Dfohsjkkx_2gosATRdMbGwtb0Yu-qg8txv57sgiQ%40mail.gmail.com.
