| |
Submitted by
Jarred
a Racer
from Seattle
Date Reviewed: May 15, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$12.00 | | Purchased At: | performance | | Strengths: | cheap, work fine | | Similar Products Used: | Hayes, one other brand of generics | | Bike Setup: | hayes hfx-9 hydros | | Bottom Line: | I am reviewing the Aztec disc pads. I don't know what to make of the reviews. I think they're fricking great. Half the price of the Hayes replacements. I am halfway through a season of about 30 mtb races. These pads, and other brands I have tried, have seen all kinds of conditions. In the mud and wet it's typical to go through a set in a single race. These don't wear any slower or faster than others. Break in was quick and howl free, they don't howl at all in any conditions, they don't fade as bad as others I have tried. No complaints. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
scott
a
from seattle
Date Reviewed: April 20, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$16.00 | | Purchased At: | Performance | | Strengths: | Price | | Weaknesses: | disc brake pad glossed over because of heat and did not stop. | | Similar Products Used: | Hayes | | Bike Setup: | Liquid | | Bottom Line: | dangerous | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bryan S
a Cross Country Rider
from Saskatoon, SK
Date Reviewed: July 22, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | South of Diefenbaker | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$12.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | Cheap | | Weaknesses: | They wore out in 3 months of primarily commuting! Man do they howl! They have been noisy since the start despite adjustments. It doesn't seem to matter - wet, dry, dirty, or clean - they howl. We're not talking a little squeak either but an air-horn blast howl. They have little stopping power when dry let alone wet. | | Similar Products Used: | Koolstop, various others, Norco | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale cyclocross for cross country singletrack, 100+ km road rides, daily commute. | | Bottom Line: | These brakes were presented by the LBS as a cost-effective alternative to some of the more expensive options. I put up with them for 3 months of poor performance until they were sufficiently worn out to warrant replacing them. In retrospect, I should've taken them back ASAP but I thought they would get better somehow. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
tscheezy
a
from Kodiak, AK
Date Reviewed: May 2, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Purchased At: | REI | | Strengths: | Nothing. These things are very dangerous. Bed them in very carefully to see if they suffer catastrophic failure. | | Weaknesses: | Cannot withstand normal braking heat. | | Similar Products Used: | Avid ACP, UCP, B3, B4, C4, and EBC Gold | | Bike Setup: | Turner XCE and 5-Spot, Avid Mechs and Juicys | | Bottom Line: | This review is for the Aztec (Delta) pads for Avid Mechs and Juicys (part #PB8300). They suffered total failure during bedding in. Almost all the material scraped off the metal carrier within 1 mile. Check the brakes board on this site for pics and a description (paste address into browser if it does not show as a link): http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?p=160259#post160259
Aztec had better pray that no lawyer buys these pads. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
morgan
a Weekend Warrior
from san diego
Date Reviewed: September 30, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$13.00 | | Purchased At: | performance bike | | Strengths: | none | | Weaknesses: | I rode one run with brand new pads at mammoth when they gave way. Half way down the first run they were gone and I was going about 50mph down kamikazi run into a turn. The pads were down to metal on metal. I have nothing good to say about them. DO NOT BUY THESE PADS, THEY WILL KILL YOU! | | Similar Products Used: | Hayes stock pads came with the bike and they lasted two years of the same punishment. | | Bike Setup: | Haro X3 with freeride set-up | | Bottom Line: | Your risking your life with these pads. DO NOT BUY THEM! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jeff Carey
a
from denver, CO, USA
Date Reviewed: June 22, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | lots of them probably porcupine rim | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | came with a tune-up for free. | | Strengths: | brakes well in good condition | | Weaknesses: | If it is muddy or wet they really suck | | Similar Products Used: | ride my brothers hydraulic disks some times | | Bike Setup: | specialized hardrock with rhyno lite rims, deore derauilers, shimano hubs, judy tt, crappy pedals. | | Bottom Line: | these brakes are normal, nothing special but for free they are great. wouldn't pay for these though. a lot of work when downhilling. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Joe
a Weekend Warrior
from Vancouver
Date Reviewed: February 17, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$8.00 | | Purchased At: | lbs | | Similar Products Used: | kool stop e2, kool stop thinline | | Bottom Line: | Here's the deal. I bought these along with a pair of Eagle 2's. I put the Aztec's on the back, and after less than 10 miles of aggressive trail riding in wet, muddy conditions they were gone! Warn past the wear bars! The smell of burning rubber was discuraging. Then I was without rear breaks for the last 5 miles! I am a 200lb rider that values the ablity to stop within a reasonable distance. And I am tipically much harder on the front break than the rear. But at least I had the Eagle's up front. They showed only minimal wear and did most of the work. So if you are trying to save a few bucks like I was, forget it! Buy the Kool Stop Eagle's. They are a much better value. I wish I could give the Aztec's less than 1. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
RICARDO ORTEGON
a Cross Country Rider
from BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
Date Reviewed: February 6, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | LA VIGA ( NEAR THE CITY ) | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$7.00 | | Purchased At: | CICLO CROSS | | Strengths: | SILENT BRAKE, DURABLE. | | Weaknesses: | WEIGTH AS A ROCK, DOESN'T BRAKE AS KOOL STOP, IN WET CONDITIONS THEY'RE CRAPT 'CAUSE ONLY BRAKE AFTER 30" ( I GET A HORRIBLE PAIN IN MY HAND BECAUSE OF THE FORCE ), BUT DRY THE WORK GEAT. | | Similar Products Used: | KOOL STOP, SHIMANO ORIGINAL PADS | | Bike Setup: | SMITH FRAME, R/S JUDY XC, RITCHEY BAR, STEM, GRIPS. DEORE CRANKSET, R/D, CASS; XT F/D, LX HUBS AND MEGA 9 SHIFTERS.
SUCH A BIG SALAD ISN'T IT? | | Bottom Line: | THEY BRAKE GOOD ENOUGH IN GOOD CONDITIONS, DURABLES AND LOK NICE. DON' TRUST WHAT THE COMPARISON CHART SAYS. IT'S CRAP. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andrew K.
a Weekend Warrior
from Fremont, NE USA
Date Reviewed: November 10, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$8.00 | | Purchased At: | nashbar | | Strengths: | cheap, stop ok, no squealing | | Weaknesses: | not a good grip when wet | | Similar Products Used: | shimano | | Bike Setup: | pacific kodiak | | Bottom Line: | a good cheap pad if you are just a bike around town person, but be careful when they get wet. they do not seem to stop as well, especially down a hill. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
chris
a Cross Country Rider
from Hampden,ME
Date Reviewed: February 23, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$12.00 | | Purchased At: | bike shop | | Strengths: | they will probably stop you eventully | | Weaknesses: | schreeech, suck in wet and dry conditions | | Similar Products Used: | avid rim wrangler | | Bottom Line: | dont waste wour money on these | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Doug
a
from Port Angeles
Date Reviewed: February 5, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Price Paid: |
$9.00 | | Strengths: | GOOD FIRESTARTER | | Weaknesses: | TERRIBLEE IN WET CONDITIONS, COMPLETELY WORN OUT AFTER 3 SHORT RIDES. I SUPPOSE THEY WOULD BE OK IN THE SUMMER FOR ROAD RIDES, WHEN WHO USES BRAKES ANYWAY. | | Similar Products Used: | SHIMANO , CHEAP PYRAMID LASTING BETTER | | Bottom Line: | WORTHLESS IN THE WET | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Pavel
a Weekend Warrior
from Concord, CA, US
Date Reviewed: November 20, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$10.00 | | Purchased At: | two local bicycle shops | | Strengths: | Smooth, cheap | | Weaknesses: | Noisy in the beginning | | Similar Products Used: | Factory pads | | Bike Setup: | Trek 7500, mostly stock | | Bottom Line: | I've replaced worn factory pads on my 99 Trek 7500 with Aztec x2 pads and the difference is quite nice. Breaking distance is shorter and overall breaking is smoother. There was a lot of noice during the first few days from the rear pads, but it was gone soon. I've sanded the front pads a little with fine sandpaper and I haven't noticed any sounds from them.
| | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Martin
a Cross Country Rider
from Ontario, Canada
Date Reviewed: October 17, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$12.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | None | | Weaknesses: | Lasted 2 rides and one race..for 12 bucks that's bull
Really harsh on rims
No perceived increase in stopping power
Wear limit markings difficult to see
| | Similar Products Used: | XT,XTR, Avid Rim Wrangler, MEC generic | | Bike Setup: | some metal, rubber, plastic, and oil | | Bottom Line: | These pads (v-replacement) are a waste of money and pure garbage. Go with Avid Rim Wrangler's...about to try el cheapo MEC pads...we'll see. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Allen
a Cross Country Rider
from Conway, AR
Date Reviewed: July 9, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | butterfield - Devil's Den | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Purchased At: | nashbar.com | | Strengths: | Aztec II pads
Great braking
quiet
Gentle on Rim | | Weaknesses: | n/a | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano LX pads | | Bike Setup: | Schwinn Mesa GS LX, XT, MARS | | Bottom Line: | these pads are great. They stop great, don't produce black dust like shimano pads, and don't scratch rims. They are quiet. I have never heard them squeel, even when wet. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jeff Geortler
a Racer
from NJ
Date Reviewed: June 19, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | the ones i ride on | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$7.00 | | Purchased At: | action wheels | | Strengths: | they were pretty strong | | Weaknesses: | VERY LOUD | | Similar Products Used: | avid rim wranglers | | Bike Setup: | cannondale | | Bottom Line: | they were strong but they are very loud they sound kind of like a wolf howling!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
ccruz
a Weekend Warrior
from bergen county, NJ
Date Reviewed: May 22, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$12.00 | | Purchased At: | campmor | | Strengths: | my review is on Super-V pads with holders and inserts that i strongly feel is better than the XT V pads. this stoppers are smoother, powerful and cheaper than the the XT pads. holders, spacers and bolts are strong and fairly light too. no gritty feeling like the one i feel on shimano v pads. | | Weaknesses: | pads wears out a bit faster..........but this i dont consider a weakness.........brake pads are designed to wear. | | Similar Products Used: | shimano xt pads & ritchey logic pads. | | Bike Setup: | SS Kona Kaboom | | Bottom Line: | this is a cheap aftermarket product that performs pretty
much like the big brands - but better.
| | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
bill hambone
a Cross Country Rider
from slc ut
Date Reviewed: May 20, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | great western trail | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$14.00 | | Purchased At: | wild rose | | Strengths: | quiet | | Weaknesses: | less that 60 miles and these crappy piece of junk pads are no good | | Bike Setup: | fisher y frame long travel front shock, | | Bottom Line: | dont waste your money. your better off to by a 2x4 and use that to stop | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jason Dedrickson
a Weekend Warrior
from Roeland Park, KS, USA
Date Reviewed: April 26, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | Amasa Back | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$8.00 | | Purchased At: | Bike shop | | Strengths: | Cheap | | Weaknesses: | Work like they are cheap with poor stopping power. Didn't realize until I grabbed my biddies bike (same brakes, rims) and felt how bad these are. | | Similar Products Used: | Kool Stop | | Bike Setup: | FSR Elite | | Bottom Line: | Throw them away | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Rocky Rider
a Cross Country Rider
from Ontario
Date Reviewed: November 6, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Absolutely silent
More powerful than XT V-brake pads
The proce is right | | Bottom Line: | These pads are very good for the price. I have them on 3 bikes (both cantilever and V-brake versions) and they work like a champ. XT v-brake pads squealed so badly, I replaced them with Fibrax pads (same cartridge format), got better but still noisy. Theze aztecs are silent and more powerful. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Cameron
a Cross Country Rider
from Burke, VA, USA
Date Reviewed: August 8, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Bust-a-Nut Hill | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Similar Products Used: | XT Stock Pads | | Bike Setup: | Fisher Marlin, with Judy Sl, XT Front/ Rear/ Crank, SRAM Plasma Gripshifts, XT V Brakes | | Bottom Line: | I dont understand everyones problems with theese pads. They aren't nearly as squeaky as the stock XT pads, they stop damn fast, and mine are great in the rain. Maybe im just lucky. I dont know, but i love theese pads. 5 Flaming $hits | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
J. D.
a Cross Country Rider
from West Virginia
Date Reviewed: May 31, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Works well in dry conditions | | Weaknesses: | Pads are destroyed by wet weather | | Similar Products Used: | Avid | | Bike Setup: | Trek 7000 | | Bottom Line: | Snowshoe 24 Hours course caused complete destruction of relatively new pads - front and rear. Pads wore so quickly that the brake arms began contacting the tire and caused the arms to wear. 4 mounds o' fire dry conditions - 0 mounds o' fire wet - Average 2. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
sketchy
a Weekend Warrior
from DC
Date Reviewed: May 29, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | None | | Weaknesses: | Wear fast, don't stop. | | Similar Products Used: | All pads 'cept WTB. | | Bike Setup: | DBR X-10 | | Bottom Line: | The red pads disintergrated in one wet downhill run. Actually felt pads disappear while braking. I know the pads are supposed to wear fast under severe conditions, but no pads I've used were near this bad, plus they didn't stop well. Tried the black pads, and they didn't stop at all.
Don't believe the graphs on the package, these pads really suck! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Spacehopper
a Cross Country Rider
from UK
Date Reviewed: January 26, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | fast | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | These last forever, 4years and counting being riden 2-3 times a week over gravel, mud and sand. Don't squeal as long as they're set up right, and stop you in all weathers just what your after from a bit of stoppin' type rubber | | Weaknesses: | errrr, I hate settin' up brakes | | Similar Products Used: | Kool stops, Shimano | | Bike Setup: | Rigid, canti's | | Bottom Line: | If you lookin' for a pad that stops you and lasts buy this one, simple! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matt
a Weekend Warrior
from Berkeley, CA
Date Reviewed: January 19, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | cheap, durable, work better wet than dry | | Weaknesses: | can be difficult to set up | | Similar Products Used: | '94 STX-RC stock pads, '91 XT canti pads | | Bike Setup: | '94 Performance M304 with STX-RC cantilevers | | Bottom Line: | I bought these pads to get better stopping power in wet conditions on my cantilevers, and boy do they work. I did, however, spend the first month trying to get rid of the damn squeal. I finally figured out that I had to take a rough grit sandpaper (like 50 grit) and agitate the entire surface. After that, I just toed them in correctly and off I went. Although I only use them 3 or 4 times a week for trips around town and the occasional trip to work, I've got the same pads, 4 1/2 years later. They did pick up some aluminum on my Sun rims (ca. '96) from time to time, but nothing big. They've got at least another year of life in them: best canti pads I've ever owned. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Evan truesdale
a Cross-Country Rider
from Chicago IL
Date Reviewed: October 27, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Bottom Line: | I bought them And they didn't fit my damn brakes!!! Shimano STXRC V'sI give these a negitive rating if I could AAARRRGGGHHHH | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tom Fitzp
a Cross-Country Rider
from Seattle, WA
Date Reviewed: October 18, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
pretty cheap | | Weaknesses: |
don't last | | Similar Products Used: |
Kool Stop | | Bike Setup: |
755 w/LX Vs | | Bottom Line: | lasted only 4 months of dry-season riding; one trip thru puddles and the rear pads were gone. A waste of money. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
steve woodward
a Cross-Country Rider
from Bristol
Date Reviewed: October 1, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: |
Quantocks | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
Durable, cheap good in wet. | | Similar Products Used: |
eagle claw (Cool stops),
shimano, fibrex, richey,
etc. | | Bike Setup: |
Team LTS, Orange P7 | | Bottom Line: | These work fine. I've used all types of pads in the passed Canti and V-brake fittings and the only
ones I would never buy again are the cool stops as
they didn't work in the rain (and as it does that alot in Britian this means they were useless). | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andy Rixon
a Downhiller
from Oxford UK
Date Reviewed: September 9, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: |
Aston Hill, Wendover, UK | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Strengths: |
They stop really well on my bike, I use Mavic X221 and LX Vs and they are a really good pad | | Weaknesses: |
They squeak a bit, but which brakes don't | | Similar Products Used: |
Kool Stop,
Shimano LX | | Bike Setup: |
GT LTS2000
Bomber Z1 | | Bottom Line: | I regulary do the Dual Slalom at Aston Hill and they stop me enough. I also do trials so I can quite easily pull Endos or Backhop with them on. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
frank the goat
a Weekend Warrior
from city, state
Date Reviewed: September 2, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: |
45 x | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Strengths: |
bikers can hear you from 50 miles around and i guess you cant bolt a turd to your breakset...so it works better than turds. i think.... | | Weaknesses: |
turds are possibly better. | | Similar Products Used: |
shimano, huffy regular breaks work better. | | Bike Setup: |
specialized hardrock | | Bottom Line: | that dude is right, they sound like piglets in boric acid. i mean i have heard better noises when i stick the fork in the garbage disposal. these pads, sound like a constipated cat that just ate razorblades. i cant give these negative ratings, so ill give it 1 constipated kitty. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike
a Cross-Country Rider
from Antioch, CA
Date Reviewed: June 17, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: |
Ridge Trail, Black Diamond Regional Park | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Low cost, easy to set up, no scraping sound, don't pick up bits of Al from your rim (like the stock LX pads did), thicker than other pads. They stop just fine. | | Weaknesses: |
None yet that I can see. | | Similar Products Used: |
LX stock V pads, Diacompe V brake pads. | | Bike Setup: |
Cannondale Killer V-HT with Shimano LX V's and Avid Ultimate V-chip levers and Diacompe cables. | | Bottom Line: | These pads seem to work for me, although I haven't run them under wet conditions. I didn't even set them up with any toe-in. They don't make that annoying scraping sound (like sandpaper on your rims) like the stock LX V and Diacompe V pads did, and they don't pick up bits of aluminum, which is a good thing. They don't squeal (at least for me). I've got a set of Kool Stop pads and a set of XT pads with holders waiting to be installed when these wear out. However, the Aztec pads seem to be thicker so I think they should wear longer; only time will tell. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Matt
a Cross-Country Rider
from Columbus, OH
Date Reviewed: June 4, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: |
all of them | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
Cheap | | Weaknesses: |
squeal
no stopping power | | Bike Setup: |
rigid Rockhopper | | Bottom Line: | Other than the price, these pads suck. I've adusted them to get them quiet as possible, but they still whine a little if they get wet. My advice: Spring the extra $$ for better pads if you can. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Raymond Cox
a Cross-Country Rider
from Elk Grove, Ca
Date Reviewed: April 25, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
Cost | | Weaknesses: |
Spongy stopping power - Noisy | | Similar Products Used: |
Stock LX-V brake pads | | Bike Setup: |
Marin Pine mountain | | Bottom Line: | I'm buying another brand - quick! I've been unable to get these pads to stop screaching; dry or wet; toed in, doesn't make much difference. Heck, the old stock worn out LX-V brake pads were better, no noise and spongy feeling when squeeze the brake lever hard. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Lee Crowell
a Cross-Country Rider
from Bartonsville PA
Date Reviewed: April 3, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: |
Camelback sout trail | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
|
$ 11.00
