Looking for Swiss stop black prince carbon pads

J Madone

Swissstop have announced these upgrades to flash pro yellow, can't find them online anywhere to buy. Anyone any success in sourcing them?
Swiss stop black prince carbon pads
Thanks for your help in advance
J M

CheGuedara

J Madone wrote: »

Swissstop have announced these upgrades to flash pro yellow, can't find them online anywhere to buy. Anyone any success in sourcing them?
Swiss stop black prince carbon pads
Thanks for your help in advance
J M

I recall seeing them recently on bike24.com for a decent price, could be worth checking out if you've a few bits to pick up to get over postage costs

J Madone

CheGuedara wrote: »

I recall seeing them recently on bike24.com for a decent price, could be worth checking out if you've a few bits to pick up to get over postage costs

Thanks for the reply, looking for their new ones called black prince for shimano fitment, can't seem to find them anywhere to buy, meant to be lower temps than yellows for carbon rims

doozerie

Bike24 suggests that they have existed (for Carbon brake shoes) since 2011 at least. However a quick search turned up Shimano ones from some US ebay sites only, like this one.

J Madone

doozerie wrote: »

Bike24 suggests that they have existed (for Carbon brake shoes) since 2011 at least. However a quick search turned up Shimano ones from some US ebay sites only, like this one.

Thanks for that, let you know how I get on with customs and postage

doozerie

From memory, though it has been quite a while since I've checked so things may have changed, the value of the delivery has to be over something like 60euro to be subject to customs and VAT charges. Mind you, that total value probably includes shipping costs, plus some delivery companies are hoors for just applying the charges regardless. My best experiences of having stuff delivered from the US have been via An Post, and they used to be the local delivery agents for USPS.

CheGuedara

AFAIK the 2011 refers to the mould design to indicate they're compatible with the new campag brake shoes, they're not old brake pads (as the black prince and bxp compounds are very new releases from last year).

Amazed at that price difference between them and the Shimano compatible version, although if you check up bike-components.de they have them for 27 beans and you should have no customs worries!

doozerie

CheGuedara wrote: »

AFAIK the 2011 refers to the mould design to indicate they're compatible with the new campag brake shoes, they're not old brake pads (as the black prince and bxp compounds are very new releases from last year).

Ah, that makes sense, thanks.

rappid

I'm testing black price since January.
What I can say they are much better in dry and better than yellow in wet.
No annoying squeak. Wear out faster.
Bought for 40$ with shipping somewhere in US.