Absolute Black Graphenpads Disc Brake Pads For SRAM (No.35)

Absolute Black Graphenpads Disc Brake Pads For SRAM (No.35)

Experience confident and reliable braking performance on every descent with Absolute Black Graphenpads Disc Brake Pads. Engineered for optimal temperature management and consistent braking power, these pads are designed to enhance your riding experience and boost your braking confidence.

Temperature Management

Absolute Black understands that brake pads play a critical role in ensuring safe and controlled descents. That's why Graphenpads are engineered to keep the temperature of the brake pads and rotor as low as possible, even during extended downhill sections. By minimizing heat buildup, these pads maintain consistent performance and prevent brake fade.

Enhanced Performance

After three years of rigorous development, Absolute Black has crafted Graphenpads to deliver unparalleled braking performance. With consistent braking power, initial bite, and modulation throughout long descents, these pads provide riders with the confidence to push their limits without compromising safety.

Reduced Heat

Graphenpads utilize advanced materials and innovative design to reduce disc pad and rotor temperature by up to 35% compared to competitors. By dissipating heat more efficiently, these pads help prevent rotor softening, wear, and warping, ensuring long-term reliability and durability.

Optimized for SRAM

Designed specifically for SRAM disc brake systems, Graphenpads offer seamless compatibility and precise fitment. Whether you're tackling technical trails or high-speed descents, these pads deliver consistent performance and responsive braking control when you need it most.

Elevate your braking performance with Absolute Black Graphenpads Disc Brake Pads. Engineered for maximum reliability, durability, and temperature management, these pads are the ideal choice for riders seeking uncompromising braking performance on any terrain.

Key Elements

Key Elements of Absolute Black Graphenpads Disc Brake Pads For SRAM (No.35)

• First pads on the market containing specially modified graphene in their friction compound, which greatly improves braking performance, durability and heat transfer to the backplate.
  
• Thanks to the backplates being entirely covered in graphene heat dissipating coating, it was possible to achieve much greater heat transfer from the friction material to the cooling fins and at the same time, increase radiation of heat (IR spectrum) by over 20% (which is very significant).
  
• First pads in the market with patented, angled radiator fins for superior airflow and cooling. Angle cutting provides three major benefits. 1- increased overall surface of the radiator by 40% vs standard cutting methods. 2- significantly greater airflow compared to traditional radiators that increases convective heat dissipation 3 –most importantly, 45deg angle cutting makes all the surfaces radiate the heat away from the brake pad. Heat radiation (IR spectrum) is the highest in perpendicular direction to the surface so in a standard radiator, every fin is radiating its heat at a neighboring fin, keeping more heat in the element. Our pads radiate all the heat away from the back plate.
  
• To date, GRAPHENpads® are the only brake pads in the market that completely eliminate toxic copper, ahead of new regulations (copper brake dust is proven to be toxic to aquatic life hence new California regulation will ban use of copper from 2025)

• Extraordinary lifespan of the brake pads and rotors. According to our own tests single set of pads lasted on average 8000km ( 4900 mi) in hilly terrain. Graphene in disc pad friction material also prolongs the life of rotors by embedding graphene particles into micropores of the rotor braking surface.

• They are produced in EU unlike majority of other pads on the market, which come from a single Taiwanese factory.
  

What you will feel

• Predictability and power, allowing you to regain full control of your braking
  
• Better modulation and faster stopping
  
• Improved confidence when descending
  
• No brake fade, more consistency and reliable braking feel corner after corner, even on the most demanding descends.
  
• They are very quiet, even during long descends.
  
• They reduce fatigue of your hands due to greatly reduced brake lever force needed to achieve powerful braking compared to competition.
  

Why the majority of pads have similar average performance

The great majority of popular organic disc pads on the market are produced by just one Taiwanese company. Interestingly, they don’t develop braking compounds themselves but instead, source such formulas from elsewhere. Anyone can pick their braking compound from a short catalogue, then pick a color of the backing surface and just like that, they’ve created their own brand of braking pads.

GRAPHENpad’s friction compound on the other hand, was developed with help from renowned European disc pads specialist with decades of experience and one-of-a-kind equipment, that allows for precise performance testing. Graphene is still a very new material, especially in friction brake compounds. Due to its very unique properties and years of testing, we were able to develop a friction material like no other. In the automotive industry, where almost every major car maker has already filed several patent applications for friction compounds containing graphene, it’s clear to see that it is the future of braking pads. New regulations which start from 2025 will prohibit the use of copper powder in disc pads. Graphene is not only an excellent substitute to copper, but a major upgrade in terms of performance. We are the first company in the bicycle industry offering graphene in the friction compound.

Why Cooling Fins Are The Critical Part Of Brake Cooling Ability

In order to explain how important the disc pad fins are to overall disc brake cooling abilities, first we need to understand what is the most important factor that helps the brake caliper, rotor and pads to cool down. Air moving past all braking elements during the ride, plays this crucial role. Increasing the surface of disc pad backplate enables more exposure to wind hence improves cooling. The cooler the pads, rotor and caliper, the better the braking performance.

But Graphene Is Used In Super Low Friction Lubricant

In order to understand why graphene is such a good material for friction compound, one needs to understand how friction compound is made. Typical organic friction compound includes five classes of components: a fibrous material made from inorganic/organic/metallic fibers (like copper), a binder (like thermosetting polymer), a "filler" (various soft ceramic powders), one or more lubricants/friction modifiers (like graphite, copper), one or more abrasives (hard ceramic powders). The binder, which is typically a phenolic resin that bonds all components together, has a very high friction coefficient, therefore it is necessary to add friction modifiers/lubricants to lower the friction coefficient and allow braking modulation.

Copper is a great example of a material that not only acts as fibrous material but it is also a lubricant and conductor of heat to the backplate. Graphene on the other hand is several times stronger than copper, conducts heat 3-6 times better and its coefficient of friction is several orders of magnitude lower. By eliminating copper and finding the right balance of graphene and other components, we created one-of-a-kind friction material that delivers extraordinary performance.

Installation

How to install Graphenpads

Please bed the pads in for proper braking experience. This is CRUCIAL part of every brake pad installation. Neglecting this step will produce sub-par experience.

• Remove wheel and old brake pads.
  
• Use a brake cleaner to clean inside of the caliper and the rotor surface (alternatively use isopropyl alcohol)
  
• Gently push each piston back into the caliper body (using for example big screwdriver). Then mount new pads and spring
  
• Most important part - While riding at about 20km/h (12mph) in safe environment, apply brakes evenly until speed drops to walking pace. Repeat 20 times. Then stop 10 times aggressively
  

Specifications

Specifications of Absolute Black Graphenpads Disc Brake Pads