I met Wayne of Ashima last year when they were just starting to roll out their product suite. This year they have a whole line of disc and rim brakes pads, rim brake pad holders and disc brake rotors and a very new disc brake system. Their parts are being distributed by J&B Importers so their stuff should be easier to get this coming year.

They have some interesting features on their brake pads. In the disc world, they have a multi-compound pad called the SOS. Basically, the pad has an Organic section in the middle of the pad flanked on either side by sintered sections. I have not tried them, but it sounds like a great way to combine the 2 different properties of each of those materials into one pad. They also have some pretty trick rim pads that have multiple sections on the pad to do different functions. An example is the top of the line Pro Range-4Fun which starts off with a crud removal section, then a water removal section, then the maximum braking contact section followed up with a progressive rim release section. Whew!

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