Just had my 20K service and both front and back still had some life. Replaced both tires and the shop put my own pads on at the same time, no labor charge for installing the pads. Did not need them yet but now I wont have to worry about them for 20k +. If you need tires then it may be a good time to swap them or pay labor later on when you really need them. Pads are pretty cheap. If you can take your own wheels off then brake pads sound pretty simple to change.

 

I get about the same front and rear because I am old school and use my engine to slow me long before I even apply the brakes... also I don't ride in very much stop and go traffic :-) here in Fort Walton Beach, FL.

 

Get Lyndall pads, they last a really long time. I have had the front ones for at least 20K miles and they are still way more than half. I use my front brakes far more than my rears. I have the Z plus pads. i can get them for you if you like.

Drew

 

i have heard lyndal pads are excellent
i use my bike near daily,pads seem to last a couple of years

 

it depends on how you drive, i use 2 times more the front brake and clutch for stopping.
i only use the rear in emergency. i have 52k on the rear and they are about 50% gone. the front i have the 3rd set about gone at 52k. i am also replacing the rotor as it has a nice lip on it. i will always use lyndal

 

Take the bike off the trailer.

 

A couple of thoughts:

1.) Jackie Stuart once commented regarding the use of downshifting (engine braking); that Transmission Syncros and Bearings were considerably more expensive than Brake Parts,

2.) The wear rate on Pads is inversely proportional to the wear rate on the Rotors. ie Long pad Life = Short Rotor life and Short Pad Life = Long Rotor Life. It's all about friction and the heat that is generated to get rid of the kinetic energy of the weight in motion . . . how you divide that up between the Pads, the Rotors and the Transmission Parts is the choice of the designer and the eventual owner.
There's no free lunch.

The laws of physics don't care . . . it's all in the choices you make.

 

Lyndall brakes for me very good product. hardly any break dust and my whitewalls stay much cleaner

 

Sounds like something an idiot navy man from MA would say... LOL Wait 'til you have ridden a few miles... you shouldn't even have brake dust on that bike yet.

 

Hd replaced the rears at 17k, when I got home and looked at the old ones, could have gone another 10k easy.. less than 1/2 gone.

bought lyndals for the front. at 23k the INDY I go to now said the fronts dont need it yet.
originals still on the front at 25,700, and I use front 75% of the time..

still waiting to install the lyndals