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.
New frame needed a T47 internal BB. I was debating about doing a run of the mill, or splurging on the King. Glad I did. I don't have enough miles on this yet to say it's lasted 60,000 miles and has been trouble free, but I have others in other bikes going strong.
One thing to note. Ceramic bearings in our field of use aren't exactly all they're cracked up to be in terms of "making you faster". But, what I can tell you, is ceramic bearings last longer because from what I've found, they pulverize grit. My cross BB is going strong through 2 seasons of, well, cross weather. And I'm not delicate with the hose either, I blast the dirt out and call it a day.
So, I can say ceramic has a place for not getting so chunky and such like steel, but it's of course costly.
Regarding maintenance, it's not too bad, pop the seal ring out, flush with cleaner, new grease, pop seal back in, done. I do wish there was a cap or something over the seal itself like most BB's have, just for some added protection and a spot to put more grease, but it's not a big thing.
Threaded into the frame by hand too, and then I got the torque wrench to finish the job. No goofy threads.
