Metallic, Resin....

Derkderkall

Derkderkall

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Cherry Poppin the brake pad forum... oooooooooooo yeah.

Need some new front pads on my bike. Brakes are Shimano Deore XT M8000, Shimano site says resin comes standard, (I looked up my order history on Jenson and that listing says ceramic?).

I'm thinking maybe trying the sintered replacements... for the following reasons - from reading Art's cyclery post.

200 lb load on the bike
better heat dissipation for my cheapo rotors,
Better wear on the downhills,

So... what do you run, any input on pad material... experiences...
 
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I use resin for silent braking.

That said, I needed pads and all that were available at that moment were metallic. They're on the back of the XTC and I've been pleasantly surprised so far. My previous experiences with them were not happy making.

Metallic pads may last longer but will also wear out the disc faster. Whether that costs more in the long run is out of scope for this reply.:whistling:
 
My M8000s came with metal pads. I replaced them with Shimano's JO2A resin pads.
The metals work great, last longer, but can get noisy during hard efforts. Not Sram noisy but...
JO2As are silent, and strong but don't last as long.
I carry the metal pads as a spare set.
 
Ceramic may be referring to the Caliper Pistons on your XT brakes.

Metallic pads are noisy....but they last forever.

Resins/Organic pads are much quieter and are a little more sticky....but they wear like chalk.

Resins are also inexpensive, especially when you do the steel backer/non finned pads($6 per caliper).

I run Resin pads on all our bikes. On the hardtails, I really didn’t find an advantage to the finned pads.
 
mtnbikej said:
Ceramic may be referring to the Caliper Pistons on your XT brakes.

Metallic pads are noisy....but they last forever.

Resins/Organic pads are much quieter and are a little more sticky....but they wear like chalk.

Resins are also inexpensive, especially when you do the steel backer/non finned pads($6 per caliper).

I run Resin pads on all our bikes. On the hardtails, I really didn’t find an advantage to the finned pads.
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You're right, I just re-read the Jenson listing and ceramic was for the piston. And like @rossage the pads were metallic.
 
Derek, you’ve ridden with me a few times and we both have XT brakes. Did my brakes seem noisy to you? I was wearing out resin pads like too fast so a few years ago I switched to metal pads and never looked back. They do last longer. Its these long steep downhill runs we have here that kill out pads fast.
 
Resin resin and more resin. I've never had luck with the metal pads, they stop good but make racket under heavy use. When I built up my hightower the new XT brakes came with metal pads and I was bound and determined to try and use em up. Then along came trail 120 which is a brake burner deluxe. About 1/3 of the way down I thought I was gonna go deaf and by the end of the ride the rotors were shot. I knew better and had extra resins hanging on the wall but thought I could sneak one more ride out of em.
 
SnakeCharmer said:
Derek, you’ve ridden with me a few times and we both have XT brakes. Did my brakes seem noisy to you? I was wearing out resin pads like too fast so a few years ago I switched to metal pads and never looked back. They do last longer. Its these long steep downhill runs we have here that kill out pads fast.
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It's ridng your brakes that wears out the pads on those long steep downhill runs. :p:D
 
For me resin pads on my xc bike and metallic on my hightower. The resins work fine too on my big bike on everything but park days. I can go through a set of resin pads in a single day at N* or mammoth. The metallics are noisy, especially when they get dusty... but I need the fade resistance of the metallic pads. Even with 200mm rotors front and back, I can melt down a set of resin pads on a full mid mountain to the bottom run at mammoth if I run it non-stop.
 
Ebruner said:
For me resin pads on my xc bike and metallic on my hightower. The resins work fine too on my big bike on everything but park days. I can go through a set of resin pads in a single day at N* or mammoth. The metallics are noisy, especially when they get dusty... but I need the fade resistance of the metallic pads. Even with 200mm rotors front and back, I can melt down a set of resin pads on a full mid mountain to the bottom run at mammoth if I run it non-stop.
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hell ya! Get rad baby!
 
SnakeCharmer said:
Just how much faster than 35pmh (on dirt) do I have to go before you stop saying that?! :eek:
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I don't actually know... :oops: I get my pads from my mechanic. He puts 'em on and bleeds 'em for me for a six pack plus the steeply discounted price of the pads. Whatever the XT (MT8000s) came with, probably. They don't make much noise - maybe a little when wet or when hot. I think I go through a set about every 6-8 months. I carry a spare pair with me in my pack, but I don't know what material they are either. :confused: I do know how to change them, so I got that going for me...which is nice.

I have heard of the one metallic and one resin on each end of the bike. Not sure the theory on that, but I know people do it. (Shrugging emoji)
 
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