Hand on heart: replacing the pads is often a fiddly job, garnished with a bit of swearing. This is because the slave pistons protrude far out of the housing and are unwilling to return to their original position. The chainring specialist Absoluteblack has now come up with unexpected help for easy pad changes.

Component manufacturer Absolute Black introduces a completely new type of brake pad with the GRAPHENpads®. Thanks to the unique approach to backplate cooling fin design, a customized backplate coating with graphene and a completely new friction compound that uses specially modified graphene instead of toxic copper, they are considered a new benchmark for the brake pad industry.