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Spikenipple

10-10-09 03:01 PM

Brake Pad life?

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

10-10-09 03:36 PM

Re: Brake Pad life

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

10-10-09 04:45 PM

Re: Brake Pad life

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

10-10-09 05:24 PM

Re: Brake Pad life

Quote:

Originally Posted by sunshine (Post 2059733)

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spikenipple (Post 2059654)

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

10-10-09 05:41 PM

Re: Brake Pad life

Filter more aggressively :-P

steveg

10-10-09 06:00 PM

Re: Brake Pad life

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

Cheers Steveg

Spikenipple

11-10-09 12:23 PM

Re: Brake Pad life

Quote:

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris (Post 2059757)

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

11-10-09 01:13 PM

Re: Brake Pad life

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

11-10-09 02:57 PM

Re: Brake Pad life

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

11-10-09 04:39 PM

Re: Brake Pad life

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spikenipple (Post 2060485)

Yep mainly commute miles

Cheers Steveg

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