Brake Pads Compound

[kuksul08]

Organic - Fibrous materials glued together
Semi-Metallic - Fibrous materials and metal particles glued together
Sintered - Metal particles smooshed together under heat and pressure

I've always read that Organic is the easiest on brake rotors, however my experience has showed me that they actually groove rotors pretty badly and also wear out super quick, whereas sintered pads barely wear the rotors at all and last a long time.

The only downside to sintered IMO is that they don't work at all in the wet, and take a little bit to warm up.

A lot of bikes recommend running organic in the rear and sintered up front. What has your experience been?

 

[stangmx13]

My experience is that classifying brake pads in that fashion isn’t good enough. My race brake pads are sintered and have such a high friction coefficient that they will out-perform an organic pad in all conditions.

 

[afm199]

Simply put:

Sintered pads deposit material ( metal based, usually copper) on the rotor. They don't wear them out very fast. In fact, on the GSXR, the buttons usually go before the rotors do.

I have never, in fifty plus years of riding, found rain to be a problem with sintered pads.

Organic pads are mineral based, and they wear the fuck out of rotors. Their only positive aspect is that they are cheap. You get to pay for new rotors instead.

Go look at rotors with sintered pads. They are never shiny, the always have a haze and mung on them.

Go look at rotors with organic pads. They are always shiny and look satin shiny.

 

[jaybocc2]

I have iron rotors...

I run ferodo pads.

Organic/Ceramic are preferred as they don't eat up the iron rotors, but they produce a lot of dust.
The sintered pad are preferred as they don't produce a lot of dust but they eat up the rotors.

They both have near identical feel and bite for me so it all comes down to do i want to clean my bike or replace my rotors?

to go from ceramic to sintered you can (maybe shouldn't) get by without deglazing the rotors.
To go from sintered to ceramic you MUST deglaze the rotors.