New brake pads

I have DA 7900 brakes and find the DA brakepads really really good. I have tried some black swiss stop and another barand I can't remember. Neither had the initial bite or total grab of the DA's

Also, +1 for discobrakes as a retailer.

Swisstops are really worth it but I've only ever used them on my fair weather race bike. I have not needed to replace my Swisstop yellows in 8 years of occasional use on carbon and aluminium rims.

I used discobrakes on the Marmotte. Dirt cheap, did the job just fine. Are swisstop's really worth it?

Same here on the BXP's. Great pads, grippy in wet & dry and long lasting.

Thanks for the heads up on the BXP's!

I use the Swissstop BXP formula pads, which I feel stop better than the greens in all conditions. I'm commuting in all weathers on alu rims too.

Might give those Koolstops a go as the green swissstop pads I had were bloody awful.

I use Discobrakes red pads and prefer them over SwissStops. They are quite soft and wear relatively quickly but are very cheap if you buy in 4s or 8s. 

I've just switched to salmons from greens (on the rear) the swissstops greens seemed to wear very quicky. Cant say theres much difference between greens/blue or salmon the one advantage is that I've found less rim 'debris' in the pads compared to shimano.

I like the Swissstop greens, exceptional in the wet, far better than Koolstop (for me RItchie) reds, but wished I'd known about the salmons long ago.  Your choice probably will come down to Swissstops green and Koolstop salmons, lovers of in both camps and internet discussions, but very few people have seemingly used both and compare directly the two.

I'd thoroughly recommend Koolstop Salmon, these ones, particulars for winter riding, great in the wet on aluminium rims.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/kool-stop-dura-aceultegra105-pair-of-cartridge-i...