Greg Deemer

Posted on July 10, 2016

Avg. ride time: 27m per week

Still Feel Skittish Even After 2 Years

• Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer

If you're doing casual-paced rides on rolling terrain, these cryo blue pads will get the job done. However, demanding conditions such as tight criterium races and steep curving descents will have you pissin' your bibs. If it's raining, you better add 250% to the standard braking distance you are used to. Don't try anything new in the rain with these pads.

I've put about 6,000 miles on my Reynold's Assault SLG wheelset that I purchased in 2014. Still using these same stock pads and they have a ton of life to go. I feel like that is the problem, they harden, oxidize, and essentially feel like you are braking with plastic. Dirt builds up easily and calcifies the pads. I've started using 250 grit wet sand paper once per week to take off the hardened black layer that builds up so quickly.

Sadly, there's not much you can do in the first few years of owning your Reynolds wheels. They require you to use these. Reynolds now produces the Cryo blue Power stop, that offers a larger braking surface and supposedly some performance increasese. But they are on the order of $75 bucks. Lucky for me, my Reynolds warranty is up at the end of the month and I'm free to purchase what I please. Probably going with Swiss Stop Yellow.

Bottom line: Only buy them if you are still under warranty. These pads are miserably ineffective when you need them most

Posted on June 16, 2016

Original Replacements

• Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer

If you've got Reynolds Carbon wheels, you'll need to replace worn out pads with the original options. Sound and feel will likely vary since your old pads wore in along with your wheels. Take care of wheels from day one, and you won't have an issue when you replace them with new pads.

Maurice O.

Posted on November 8, 2015

Horrible noise makers

• Familiarity: I've used it several times

My brakes were worn out so I thought by replacing them with the original parts they would be the same ,but not.not happy because now everybody hears me when press on my brakes...

Kyle BrGearhead

Posted on September 3, 2015

the good and bad

• Familiarity: I've used it several times

I replaced the stock pads from my mercury m5 wheels with these. they squeaked more than the stock so i cambered them in a little and it's much better. Still a little squeaking at high breaking which they have always done, but breaking performance has been very good. I did his some rain in them for the first time this week on them and they did not stop me at all. So good stoppage in dry, bad in wet.

marla baileyEmployee

Posted on August 27, 2015

Take a Brake!

Wet or dry these brakes perform well. Lighter on the brakes I am , so these last forever, well not really , hehe but a long time!

Robert Smallman

Posted on July 27, 2015

Avg. ride time: 31m per week

My fav carbon pads

• Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer

Every carbon wheel demands that you use your own carbon specific brake pad, but I really enjoy these pads. They seem to work better than most other pads and they make less noise.

Bj Chauvin

Posted on April 7, 2013

Reynolds pads

• Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer

I'm on my second set of these, I'm a light braker so the first set lasted forever. No issues, both the my Reynolds wheels and pads are amazing.

Gordon G.

Posted on September 16, 2012

GOOD PRICE AND PERFORMANCE

I have not yet tried these pads in the wet , but dry performance is great. Good price, but slow delivery to Canada.