In rainy Portland I wear out my front pads about once a season. So far my sintered disc pads are on track to wear out at about the same rate, perhaps a little faster. The difference is that with rim brakes I can check their status whenever I look down at a stop light. I know when they’re going to wear out, and can replace them before it happens during a long wet ride.
Best, William On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 3:28 PM Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > When was the last time you had to replace a pair of caliper brake pads on > the road because you wore them out during a ride? I usually get > years-to-decades from mine. > > On 12/27/2017 06:19 PM, William Henderson wrote: > > Yikes! I keep spare pads in my patch kit because it’s hard to watch pad > wear so I’m paranoid about wearing a pair out during a ride. Now I have > another reason to! > > Out of curiosity, what sort of material were the pads? I’ve broken > resin-type pads while inserting them before but sintered pads seem to be a > bit more durable (and long lasting). > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 2:49 PM ascpgh <asc....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Uh, I had a simple flat fix turn complicated when I replaced the front >> wheel in the fork, missing the gap between the pads in the caliper by a >> smidge and shearing the pad's braking material off the backer plate. That's >> not a roadside repair unless you carry a replacement pair in your bag. >> >> Short answer was to snag a rear pad out of the caliper to replace the now >> toothless front pad and put the padless plate into the rear caliper and >> riding home gingerly. >> >> Andy Cheatham >> Pittsburgh >> >> >> On Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 2:07:53 PM UTC-5, lum gim fong wrote: >>> >>> Roadside maintenance easier on rim or disc brakes? >> >> >> > -- > Steve Palincsar > Alexandria, Virginia > USA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/ROaS5akcDCk/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
