stuart@rochester.ARPA (10/23/86)
From: Stuart Friedberg <stuart>
When the first set of pads wore out on my Yamaha 550 Seca, I got highly
recommended Vesparo (spelling botch! spelling botch!) pads. Unfortunately,
they squealed like seventeen pigs caught in a trash compressor. Worse,
they got HOT and faded, even when riding in the rain!
The tentative diagnosis is/was that the pads were too hard for my
disk. Yeah, disk brake disks come in a variety of alloys and/or
surface finishes. I told the dealer to take the Vesparo pads back as
unusable. This left me with the question of what to buy. I had to
have SOME front brakes :-).
Yamaha pads that fit my bike come in several compounds. I got the
softest ones they supply. No squeals, and enough friction to lock the
front wheel on anything but a perfectly clean surface. The price is
that the soft pads wear much faster, but they're still good for several
years the way I drive (long miles, but no racetracks).
Stu Friedberg {seismo, allegra}!rochester!stuart stuart@rochester