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I have had ceramic pads on my 1300 for some years now. I find them far superior to organic pads, far less dust, slower to warm up but resist heat fade much better, they also make less noise than sintered and less dust than those as well. They are so good I intend to use them on my 500 and have already bought 2 sets.
SS, as the piston doesn’t touch the calliper it won’t cause any problems with the interaction between SS and alloy.
My observation about brake squeal on these bikes would be that it is just the way things are and we just put up with it. I like to think it is just an indication that something is actually happening.