AJW2W11E

Can anyone help me identify the replacement brake pad for this Specialized Allez? I tried to search for it without much luck. It's a Tektro Axis caliper. I can't find a part number.
Thank you in Advance

rosefarts

It looks like a pretty standard cartridge.

Slide the pad off and take it to the shop to compare, almost certainly it will fit their standard road bike cartridge offerings.

choddo

The focus being on the tyre rather than the brake has somewhat limited the utility of that photo but it looks like, as rosefarts says, it is a normal RSSC3 type road pad with the little locking screw at the back.

Iride01 

You might just take one off and eyeball it to one of the sites that give better information. And that certainly won't be Tektro.

Kool Stop is a brand of pads that many recommend if you search for Tektro on their site it gives you this as a replacement pad for TRP and Tektro holders that have a set screw...

https://koolstop.com/products/dura?_...8b6d532c&_ss=r

But you could just browse their other offerings for pads with and without a internal backbone and find one that has the same mounting post to the calipers, which most are the same, and replace the whole pad assembly. If the mount post on yours isn't centered in the pad, then look for one that has about the same offset and general shape of your current pad.

https://koolstop.com/collections/rim-pads

oldbobcat

These are standard road pad cartridges, made by Shimano, SRAM, Jagwire, Kool-stop, Tektro, . . .

Kontact 

Just to be clear, there are three major road cartridge pad styles - older Campagnolo, newer Campagnolo, and Shimano/SRAM/Tektro/Dia Compe/generic. Companies like Kool Stop or Swiss Stop make all three. Your brake is not Campagnolo, so it falls into the last category. So buy pads marked "Shimano/SRAM", or just buy Shimano brand pads.

SurferRosa

Shop eBay for "kool stop dura."

https://www.ebay.com/itm/166563970758

If you need the shoe as well, shop for "kool stop dura holder."

https://www.ebay.com/itm/363285902115

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SoSmellyAir

Just buy the complete brake shoe, which includes both the holder and the replaceable brake pad: Shimano 105 5800-L Road Brake Shoe Set Black - Walmart.com

$12/pair, and since these use Shimano's standard brake pad you will not have trouble sourcing either Shimano or aftermarket pads when it is time to replace them.

Kontact 

I don't agree with this at all. Not only is it easier to change the pad than the holder, but you don't have to readjust the pad angle or height. And it is cheaper to replace just the pads.

The OP's brake already has pad holders.

veganbikes

Yeah do not buy the shoes you have shoes, just replace the pads. I highly reccomend SwissStop pads (or SRAM which are actually made by SwissStop at least some of them) or KoolStop in any S-Group configuration so Flash Pro or Flash Evo (if you have wide rims) for SwissStop or the Dura type for KoolStop and in your case just ones for standard aluminum rims.

DO NOT BUY CHEAP PADS. Brake pads and shoes are a place I don't want to cheap out on because they are the cheapest way to upgrade your braking and can actually have the most effect. I ran cheapie garbage XLC pads once on my Dura Ace calipers and I could notice the difference right away and quickly took them off and threw them away and got some SwissStop Pads (actually SRAM at first) and never looked back. If they don't have Stop in the name I would just move on.

Kontact 

Agreed, but I would say that the Shimano standard pad is equal to the SwissStop and Kool Stops. All three are easy to find.

The Tektro pads are also poor like the XLC, so the OP is probably in for a treat when he gets good ones (those Specialized brakes are probably Tektro).

veganbikes

Shimano rim brake pads are right underneath both of those. It wasn't a scientific test mind you but I have noticed a difference between the Stops and Shimano. Shimano makes good pads no doubt but I think rim brakes I would stick with the stops.

Tektro/TRP make decent calipers but their pads are terrible at least on the disc brake front I swapped pads and rotors and it changed the brakes I really wish I hadn't bought the TRP rotors in the first place but I didn't know at the time.

SoSmellyAir

Kontact veganbikes I only suggested to the OP to buy the complete brake shoes because OP said that OP could not find replacement pads for the existing shoes.

Kontact 

He couldn't find them because he didn't see any "Axis" specific brake pads, but they are Shimano/Sram standard.

AJW2W11E

Thanks everyone.

smd4

I wouldn't say that. Swiss Stop pads stop noticeably better than my Dura Ace pads. And I thought my Dura Ace pads were awesome. But definitely not equal.

SoSmellyAir

Alloy or CF wheels? Dry or wet?

smd4

Alloy. Dry.