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The pads on my 79 KZ1000 are the factory originals. I am sure there have been advances in materials to reduce fade etc. What would be the best replacement pads for my stock rotors?

The only advances I know of are cheap crap junk Chinese junk that doesn't work, but is "great" because it's "cheap". Great reason it's cheap too, because it's crap. I'm not sure where Vesra, Ferodo, EBC, ect is made, but they should be Chinese because they work just the way we expect, major wear, major squeel, won't even fit in the cavity without binding ect, ect. A whole lotta crap out there, gets my blood boiling what damn crap there is.

I've been using Feroda, no problem. Time for new pads, went with EBC from the dealer, no problem, smooth, predictable, fine in the rain.