Best Brake Pads For Urban Riding?

[Stig / Major Tom]

What is the best bake pad material to buy for a scooter used in urban riding?
Sintered seems to be best for high speed or racing - pads must heat before they begin to work well - do not respond well to a light touch for urban scooting, etc.?
Organic, semi-metalic?
What?
I ask because I ordered stock Kymco pads and was sent a set of sintered aftermarkets - and I do not race, ride at high speeds, or descend many large mountains in Ohio.
I do not want to damage my stock rotors.
Stig

[TLRam1]

I would use sintered that you have, have use on a motorcycle that was not the OEM pads for well over 60,000 miles with no issues. Have not heard about you having to "heat them up to work", many sport bikes come with sintered and have to stop whether they are in town or highway.

[josephthediviner]

My own experiance with brake pads for the People 250S and grandvista are to always use only Kymco replacement pads, sure they are softer and wear a little faster but they stop well progressively and do not harm the rotor surface the way more aggressive harder pads will and in my case did.

 I had the shop replace the front pads a couple of years ago and they (upgraded) the pads I noticed right away since it took twice as much force to clamp and then when I rode on cold wet days they took twice the distance to stop again with much more force.  but they wear like iron now it's the rotor that is getting grooved and the slide bolts are not being cleaned and lubed as often as a result.  So the best advice I can give you is to use factory parts and spend a few bucks and minutes every two years.     Jim.

[MaryK]

I read somewhere lately (motorcycle magazine) that the pads are rated on stopping power (A to H) for cold and hot operation.
So an AA pad is weak stopping both cold&hot whereas an HH is besT stopping power for both.
An AH would be poor cold and good when hot.  This may help.  I noticed that EBC makes an HH pad and wish I had bought it.

Scoot safely,

[Stig / Major Tom]

My own experiance with brake pads for the People 250S and grandvista are to always use only Kymco replacement pads, sure they are softer and wear a little faster but they stop well progressively and do not harm the rotor surface the way more aggressive harder pads will and in my case did.

 I had the shop replace the front pads a couple of years ago and they (upgraded) the pads I noticed right away since it took twice as much force to clamp and then when I rode on cold wet days they took twice the distance to stop again with much more force.  but they wear like iron now it's the rotor that is getting grooved and the slide bolts are not being cleaned and lubed as often as a result.  So the best advice I can give you is to use factory parts and spend a few bucks and minutes every two years.     Jim.

Thanks Joseph....
I think I will try again to order the front brake pads (from monster this time) - specifying that I do not want any substitutions for OEM Kymco parts  this time around (as the other on-line supplier did).