04-12-2018, 09:41 PM
(04-11-2018, 01:27 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: If you spend most of your time riding where there are stop signs and stop lights you will use up your brake pads a lot quicker than if you ride out in the country with few stops, or ride across the country on the expressway where you only use your brakes a couple times a day. I have ridden hundreds of miles without ever touching the brakes, and have ridden where you are stopping every few hundred yards it seems. One is harder on the brakes than the other.
Living in a rural setting is the difference on brake wear. My commute to work before retirement was 30 miles one way and included 4 stop signs and zero traffic lights. Going on 16,000 miles on my CB and the pads still look good. My Nissan PU went 97,000 miles on the front pads when I changed them and the OE's still had some life left. The rears have 115,000 and are original. When I lived in the city I felt lucky to get 20,000 on a set.