Shimano MT520 Compatible Heat Escape Disc Brake Pads | Uberbike

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More than just a brake pad
Heat Escape isn't simply an alternative disc brake pad. It's a completely new approach to brake pad performance and thermal management. Replacing the conventional steel backplate with a substitute material without further design changes, results in only modest improvements in cooling performance.By combining our innovative hollow stainless steel backplates, Graphene thermal management coating and our latest G-Matrix compound, we've developed a pad designed to perform beyond the limitations of conventional disc brake pads.

Built to escape the heat
During heavy braking, enormous amounts of heat are generated at the pad and rotor. This will cause the resins in the friction material to vaporize into a gas. This gas forms a pressurized layer that sits between the pads and rotor, preventing the pads from making solid physical contact with the rotor. Brake fluid vaporization can also occur when intense heat on long descents boils the hydraulic fluid, causing a spongy lever or even a total loss of braking power.

Hollow stainless steel backplate
Unlike conventional solid steel backplates, the hollow construction helps reduce heat transfer from the friction material into the caliper. This improves thermal management by keeping more heat away from the brake fluid and other sensitive components of the braking system such as the pistons and seals.

Graphene coated for improved heat dissipation
We've taken thermal management a step further with a Graphene coating on the pads stainless steel backplates.
Graphene is a highly thermally conductive carbon element, allowing heat to be dispersed across the backplate rather than concentrated in one area. In Heat Escape, this helps move heat away from the braking surface for the vastly improved control of temperatures throughout the braking system.

Our latest G-Matrix compound

The friction material needs to deliver the performance to match.
Heat Escape features our latest G-Matrix compound, developed to provide a powerful and controlled braking response while maintaining excellent levels of performance as the temperatures increase.

• High performance disc brake pads featuring our brand new graphene coated, stainless steel hollow backplate heat management technology.
• Vastly reduces heat transfer from the friction material to the brake system, helping prevent brake performance loss and fluid vaporisation.
• Integrated air cooling channels effectively dissipate heat, reducing backplate temperatures by up to 100° compared to a solid steel backplate.
• G-Matrix compound offering outstanding brake power and modulation.