Simple installation, they last, and I've never had a pair fail. I ride lots of hill repeats throughout the year in all conditions, so I'm trying out the variety of materials, from the organic quiet, to the powerful sintered copper options. The latter seem to provide more miles on hills, albeit with more noise. I'm an advocate of changing out brake pads well before the minimum thickness specification as opposed to having to replace rotors, so I keep several pair on hand.
The pads my Aeroad came with were junk. I replaced them with these pads last fall and Ive been pretty happy with them. Keep your rotors clean and pull your pads for a cleaning when things get wet. Wet conditions bring grime and abrasives into your braking system. Pull your pads and clean with rubbing alcohol, let dry, reinstall. Pad life will increase and rotor wear will decrease. These pads are kinda noisy when wet, but that's a fact of life with disc brakes. If you have your music loud enough in your ear pieces you will not hear the noise. ;)
Works perfect and fits like a glove. Purchased these to replace the old hoods I had on my SRAM double tap drive-train. Fast and reliable! Going to purchase a lot more from these guys. Not only that, but I was able to communicate with someone about installing tires on my rims that I had just purchased and they walked me through how I should install them.
There is nothing in this world like a shift on a Shimano front setup. Even their old mechanical stuff worked like butter, but the Di2 setup is nuts. Shifts every time, quiet, smooth, can do it one-handed, it's the best.
The crankarms themselves I have no issues with, even with the recall going around. The rings are where the magic happens, and it's worth it to me to not think twice about a front shift, or grinding it out a bit more in the big ring just to avoid that dreaded potential drop from other setups.
Great crankset. Catch a sale and treat your bike.
