Best aftermarket brake pads.
I spent months searching for compressed-fiber brake pads for my Avid disc brakes; my rear brake doesn't get much of a workout, so the original sintered-metal pads tended to glaze-over and start squealing. All the compressed-fiber pads I tried had bits of brass wire mixed in, to keep the disc scraped clean, which is fine except the brass is too hard and causes the pads to feel rough after they've broken-in a little bit. But then I found DiscoBrakes.com; they sell a Kevlar-based compressed-fiber pad that has bits of *copper* wire mixed in, instead of brass wire, and the softer copper doesn't produce the same rough feeling. DiscoBrakes' Kevlar pads are the best compressed-fiber pads I've ever tried, and I would recommend them to anyone. I like them so much I bought several spare pairs, just in case.