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#775603 sprt220 (User) Platinum Boarder Posts: 1010 front brake life 3 Years, 9 Months ago   Is there a general rule on how many miles you can go on the front brakes. I realize riding style comes into count.I use both front and back brakes to stop. Ken   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #775608 jd750ace (User) Front toward enemy Platinum Boarder Posts: 18763 Re:front brake life 3 Years, 9 Months ago   I've got 50k on my original fronts. Rears I can't say bacause I had a warped rotor for a long time that trashed the pads. Keeping the pads and rotor clean makes a huge difference. 70K on original pads on the SV front, and they are about done. More engine braking is less pad wear for sure. I take my pads out and clean them with Dawn and a toothbrush once a year when I flush the fluid.   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #775652 HK45 (User) I'll Make Ya Famous Platinum Boarder Posts: 1599 Re:front brake life 3 Years, 9 Months ago   depends - organic or ceramic   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #775667 techguy (User) Junior Boarder Posts: 184 Re:front brake life 3 Years, 9 Months ago   Organic shorter ceramic longer. HK45 wrote: depends - organic or ceramic   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #775703 radarlove100 (User) Junior Boarder Posts: 115 Re:front brake life 3 Years, 9 Months ago   Organic shorter life but i think they have better feel.ceramic eat rotors and have to get up to temp.to work effectively.i take new pads and cut a groove across to 1/8in.from backing pad.good visual for seeing how much is left.double h organics are the sticky ones.not recommended for the rear unless you are good at brake control.   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #775709 jd750ace (User) Front toward enemy Platinum Boarder Posts: 18763 Re:front brake life 3 Years, 9 Months ago   Never used ceramic on a bike, just sintered metal. I have yet to witness any of this rotor eating everyone talks about. Organic pads suck in the wet, and fade bad in the heat. Organic pads are for mini bikes IMO. Somebody post a pic of a rotor that got "eaten" by sintered or ceramic pads. The ceramic pads on my 2002 Impala lasted over 100K miles, stopped like a beast, the rotor looked great, and had 50% of its useful thickness remaining. HH pads are sintered metal, not organic. Organic pads are G class.   Logged     Last Edit: 2014/05/18 19:28 By jd750ace.     The administrator has disabled public write access. #775746 radarlove100 (User) Junior Boarder Posts: 115 Re:front brake life 3 Years, 9 Months ago   Sintered are not recommended for cast or grey iron rotors because of premature wear and heat warp.organics do absorb water to a degree.high quality stainless rotors can be used with sintered with less ill effects.   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #775755 jd750ace (User) Front toward enemy Platinum Boarder Posts: 18763 Re:front brake life 3 Years, 9 Months ago   I'm not seeing any ill effects on my 2003 Road Star or my 2002 SV650. Must be a miracle material. Both are stock with sintered pads. H on the Road Star and HH on the SV. My road star rear has had nothing but HH sintered EBC pads on it since I've owned it. All of us can quote what we read, but this whole nonsense of eating rotors has not materialized in my garage in the last 200,000 or so miles.   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #775803 sprt220 (User) Platinum Boarder Posts: 1010 Re:front brake life 3 Years, 9 Months ago   thanks for the reply.I have 25,000 miles and I just wanted to make sure. Ken   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access.

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