"E-Bike Compound" is the name of the new pad compound that Rex Articoli Tecnici - the company behind the Swissstop brand - has put together for disc-braked electric bikes. The organic pads should offer very good modulation and low heat sensitivity - and thus do justice to the higher system weight of e-bikes. Fading should also be virtually impossible to provoke - even at high speeds and with heavy vehicles.

The e-bike pads are available for 4 types of carrier plates (so-called 15e, 26e, 28e and 30e) and thus cover large parts of Shimano's disc stoppers, as well as Magura's MT series and Avid's Elixir, XX and XO series. "The cross riders we sponsor are also enthusiastic about the e-bike pads and use them in cross sport," says Christian Heule from Swissstop about the wide range of applications for the new products.

In the mountain bike sector, Swissstop is upgrading its sintered pads: For Shimano's Saint and Zee stoppers, Magura's MT brakes and Avid's XO trail discs, the Ticino-based company now offers not only organic but also sintered pads.

Cross or road cyclists who rely on hydraulic disc brakes from Sram can now also rely on Swissstop. With the "Disc 32" and "Disc 32s", matching oraganic and sintered-metal pads are now available.

The Ticino-based company has also responded to new trends with the "Flash Evo" racing bike pad: this stopper is narrower, as the space for pads is becoming increasingly tight with direct-mount brake callipers, aerodynamically shaped frame tubes and wide carbon rims. Thanks to a new arrangement of the grooves in the brake pad, the braking performance of the "Flash Evo" is said to be ten percent higher.

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