The standard Tektro brake pads have cartridge-style pads but unlike most they are secured with a screw through the back of the pad rather than the more common approach of a pin going through the sides of the holder. With the carbon forks there isn't much space so the screw head tends to rest against the blades of the folks which isn't ideal. As a result I've taken the decision to swap to the other sort of pads but they only come in 70mm rather than 55mm lengths. That geometric change makes it harder to use the "toe-in" trick to reduce the v-brake judder but it's still essential to get as much toe as possible.
In another change I've added some inline "sissy" brakes for convenience around town. Doing that has made for some interesting cable-routing, with one cable going over the bars and another under them. If you try and route the cables in the natural way using one brake pushes the cable for the other one applying that brake when you didn't mean to. The other change to the routing has been to change the hanger from a straight to angled version to give more clearance on the stem. With the "over the bars" routing this looks a little odd but works well.
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