Organic Kevlar vs Semi Sintered brake pads

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Which pads are better?  Kevlar or Sintered?

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There are three types of friction material commonly used for motorcycle brakes: sintered metal, ceramic, and Carbon-Kevlar. Sintered-metallic brake pads, which have a high metal content, are typically hard and abrasive to the rotor surface while offering moderate stopping power and mechanical strength. Service life tends to be
significantly lower, and sintered-metallic pads tend to run more dirty and noisy than other types of friction material. They are also inexpensive to manufacture and are the cheapest pads on the market.

Ceramic brake pads usually have a high copper content and are sintered as well. While ceramic pads generally offer a slightly longer service life and run cleaner than sintered-metallic pads, they
offer only moderate stopping power. Carbon-Kevlar pads, often referred to as organic pads, usually have a small percentage of iron or nonferrous metal and are softer than other friction materials. Carbon-Kevlar pads typically run clean and quiet, and offer good stopping power. They have an extremely long service life and are not abrasive to the rotor because they generate less heat than other friction materials.

Lyndall’s brake pads are of the Carbon-Kevlar variety. What makes Lyndall’s pads unique is that they contain a premium blend of Carbon-Kevlar and nonferrous metal and have a high transfer rate. Once the pad material has transferred a layer to the rotor, the rotor effectively becomes one big brake pad, stopping against the two smaller brake pads positioned in the caliper. The result: incredible stopping power, no dust, no noise, no drag, no measurable rotor wear, and the highest service life of any pad on the market.

Finding out which brake pads work with a particular caliper can be a challenge, but most manufacturers (Lyndall included) list application information, complete with OE part numbers crossreferenced, on their web sites. Also, a phone call to a rep for those hard-toidentify pads can help provide an answer. By looking at your sales andservice history, you can also identify which models are the most popular in your dealership. Those would be the best ones to keep in stock. Keep in mind that the older-model bikes are a diminishing market segment, so it’s best to limit your stock to one or two of each fitment.

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Carbon (Organic) - Kevlar sounds pretty good!

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I just took a set of EBC sintered pads off of my bike. They are incredibly noisy compared to organic. They throw noticeable amounts of brake dust. They obviously wear on your rotors pretty hard since mine kept a really nice shine to them vs the slightly worn look you usually get with organic pads. But they stop really,really well. The particular pads I had seemed to have a bit of lag time before they would really grab well,like they had to heat up first,but it was negligible and worked fine after that initial heat up.

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I just took a set of EBC sintered pads off of my bike. They are incredibly noisy compared to organic. They throw noticeable amounts of brake dust. They obviously wear on your rotors pretty hard since mine kept a really nice shine to them vs the slightly worn look you usually get with organic pads. But they stop really,really well. The particular pads I had seemed to have a bit of lag time before they would really grab well,like they had to heat up first,but it was negligible and worked fine after that initial heat up.

How many miles would a set of rotors last using the sintered pads ?