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Old Apr 20, 2011 | 09:56 PM
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I have the golds on my bike. Pretty satisfied with them. They are definitely less dusty. But I will tell you, there IS a break-in period with these pads! My advice is if you are going to put them on, do the fronts and the rears at different intervals.
 
Old Apr 21, 2011 | 05:04 AM
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I have the Lyndal Z Plus on my front brakes (been too lazy to replace the backs and they are still good) and they definately are better with the dust. I have spoke wheels and don't like cleaning the brake dust from inbetween the spokes. I haven't noticed any dust at all on the front wheel after putting them on.
They also seem to stop a little better but that could be my imagination.
They don't make any squealing noise but then again neither did the stock brakes.

Definately worth it for cleaner wheels in my opinion.
 
Old Apr 21, 2011 | 07:32 AM
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I had Z+ installed by Indy 5000+ miles ago. No squeal, No dust. Still have about 75% pad left front and rear. Minimal improvement in stopping power.
 
Old Apr 30, 2011 | 09:26 AM
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Just an update......300 miles on the new Z pads and no squeal, very, very little dust, don't feel any improvement in stopping power.
 
Old Apr 30, 2011 | 09:52 AM
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I finally noticed a very light grey dust on some spokes but it wipes right off. Never using regular brakes again on this bike.
 
Old Apr 30, 2011 | 06:49 PM
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Less dust, no better than OEM on performance, squeal like crazy until you have a lot of miles on them. Would never waste my money on them again.
 
Old May 1, 2011 | 01:08 PM
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I have the Gold plus on ceramic rotors and original Brembo caliper conversion on fronts, pretty happy with them. They seem to need to be heated up before you start doing some serious twisty braking. They sent me the red pads ofr the rear by mistake and went down a 10% hill and actually went faster!!! They took them back for the Golds, working good. No dust that you can visually see and my bags are not coated with dust anymore like the oem's. The sintered oems warped the floating rotors, thats when I decided to switch. I am happy with them only have about 1k miles on them so far, well see how long they last.
 
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