Phil, Squid-in-Training wrote:
The stupid "angled tip and plow" on the leading edge of the brake pad is
positively uesless. I put them on the front expecting them to increase
power over my old ones. The result was mushy, weak braking, and lots of
squeal. I figured the plow only served to keep a large portion of the pad
away from the rim, so I ground only the plow portion off. Lo and behold, no
squeal and excellent brake power now. I wonder why they would implement
this marketing gimmick if it didn't help at all and actually created squeal.

Grind off the plow if you get these pads.

trouble is, the plow is what stops the grit getting under the pad &
embedded - the /only/ reason to buy these pads. agreed, they can be
mushy and squeal like mad, but the plow /does/ work in foul weather.

are you using shimano or campy calipers? if they're the fixed toe
shimano's, you're going to have mushy brakes anyway. campy are great
because pad mountings are orbital and you can adjust to parallel to get
very positive brakes /and/ minimal grit. haven't gotten around to
installing them yet, but i recently bought a set of orbiting pad holders
for shimano. i'm interested to see if they address this issue.

http://biketoolsetc.com/index.cgi?id...item_id=KS-RHD