Brake Pad life?

[Spikenipple]

Hi .org!
Having just fit the 3rd set of rear pads in 18k miles and checking my front pads, i'm curious as to how long brake pads have lasted for other people. I'd like to know about front and rear pads please.
I have searched for similar topics, but due to 'pad' being too short for the search I can't really find much...

I'm looking to find out:


Brand and type (HH/GG etc) of pad
Length of pad life
Difference of life duration between front/back pads.

My rear OE pads lasted 10k miles. I've just fit another set of EBC sintered GG pads at 18.5k miles.
I'm still on my OE front pads, which have 500-600 miles of life before reaching the service limit.
I do understand that people ride differently using varying amounts of front/rear brake and this of course affects the results, but I'd like to get a rough idea of how long your pads have lasted.

Thanks all!
Mike

[Sally]

Front still has plently left and I am on 12K miles or something.

Rear less, as I like playing about with it :)

I use a mixture of engine braking and brakes, depends who with/how I am riding.

[sunshine]

get off that rear brake! 80% of breaking power should come from the front brake, after about 9k both still strong as ever idk whats on there

[Spikenipple]

get off that rear brake! 80% of breaking power should come from the front brake

I do understand that people ride differently using varying amounts of front/rear brake and this of course affects the results


:rolleyes:

A lot of my riding is stop-start, and I use the rear brake mainly below 10mph for smoothness.

[yorkie_chris]

Filter more aggressively :-P

[steveg]

Still on original front brake pads @ 42k miles , look good for 50k

Cheers Steveg

[Spikenipple]

Filter more aggressively :-P

Unfortunately, drivers on the Manchester ring road see mirrors as optional, as I found out the hard way the other day, ending in a carbon knuckled fist-bonnet interface :rolleyes:

Steveg that's an impressive figure from the OE pads! I guess you use the bike to commute?

[ManxMatt34]

I'm on 10.5k miles, pads have never been changed, DaveNumbers said to me there was still plenty on em' aswell when we were having a wheel taking-on-off afternoon. (not just for fun ofc) :D

[chakraist]

I brake as hard as I possibly can and use HH pads, sintered if possible, and they last me about 8k or so, that's with braking to the point where the rear lifts whenever I can. Rears might last me 100k for all I use it!

[steveg]

Unfortunately, drivers on the Manchester ring road see mirrors as optional, as I found out the hard way the other day, ending in a carbon knuckled fist-bonnet interface :rolleyes:

Steveg that's an impressive figure from the OE pads! I guess you use the bike to commute?

Yep mainly commute miles

Cheers Steveg

[Holdup]

Still on original front brake pads @ 42k miles , look good for 50k

Cheers Steveg

:o

Do you drop and anchor to stop you! i thought most pads lasted like 8k miles.

[squirrel_hunter]

I replaced the front pads of my first SV at somewhere around the 70,000 mile mark. I was the second owner from new but doubt very much that they were replaced before I had the bike.

As for the rear, never needed to. I don't use the rear brake.

[ixlr8]

Still original rear pads at 145,000 km but 4th set of fronts. I have been using hard pads but having to replace front rotors at 120,000km was the penalty. Probably better braking and value to use softer pads in retrospect. BTW, most of those kms were urban couriering. I mostly use the rear for settling the bike and trail-braking.

[kwak zzr]

you dont need brakes on an sv just pop her in 2nd and let the clutch out :)

ive never had to change pads on any bike i own? maybe i dont ride enuf.

[TazDaz]

At the 10k or so mark and the fronts still have loads of meat left yet the rear is almost worn.

I don't even use the rear other than for slow manoeuvres...puzzled.

[Rocket]

OK so my figures are for my 03 1000 but the factory Tokico HH pads lasted 45,000 miles on the rear and 22,000 on the front. After that I used EBC organic pads which are doing 22,000 miles front and rear. I'm just about to put another set of front and rear pads in at 66,000 miles.

[Jordy]

At 13k I don't think mine have ever been changed, no receipts to say so anyway... I have quite a bit left but I do get some brake squeel at slow speeds. Tried using brake cleaner on the discs but that didn't work. :scratch:

Is it recommended to change the discs as well as the pads, like on cars?

[Holdup]

Is it recommended to change the discs as well as the pads, like on cars?

If you change the discs its recommended you change the pads at the same time, if your pads are worn you just replace pads

[Jordy]

Thank you Holdup.

[chirpy999]

Hi, nearly 13000 on my K5 pointy, I think theyll last another 2000 miles before front or back need replacing.