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Well, maybe you've never unded up upside down in a cedar tree with a bike on top of you after flying off the neighbors retaining wall at the bottom of a hill when you were 14 years old. But if you had, you would understand why they are over-rated garbage.

And the pads I refer to are those little hard rectangular blocks about an inch long by about a quarter inch wide. Usually made of dried out black rubber from 1973 or so. You might have seen 'em...Like normal brake pads for cantilever or linear pull brakes but smaller & dumber...Sometimes you'll see columns of them presented on a tag-board card next to the cash register at the local bike shop. Horribly overpriced at a dollar-99 each. A total rip-off, I'm tellin' ya.