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Tony,
when I researched brake pads for the car, I found the info about the ceramics were almost what you described. The one area they fall a bit short is stopping power. The ceramic pads offered for general applications do not have the extreme heat capacity of sintered pads. In normal use, they are 95-98% of the high performance metallic pads, but they will be easily overwhelmed if used at a track-day driving event. Note these ceramics are not the same as the high-end ceramic brakes offered on sports cars and used on race cars. Those are ceramic pads-on-ceramic composite discs. Several thousand dollars worth of brakes.

In the end, I too chose ceramic pads for replacement on the car. But for the bike, I think since the pads are so much smaller (albeit the brake energy levels required is also much lower), I would rather have the reserve capacity of the metallics over ceramics.

duke
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