RE: [ST] rear brake

["Ken Mitchell" <kp.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a cupla things I don't unnerstand there. Primarily, how on earth did
you go through 3 sets of rear pads in that few miles? Either there is a
serious problem with the brake assembly (frozen calipers, misalignment?), or
you use the rear brake WAAAAY too much.

A bike has over 80% of it's braking power at the front brake. I ride fairly
hard at times, but do strive for smoothness, using brakes rarely except to
actually stop. Still, when I changed the original front pads at 16K, the
rears were still at over 80%. And the fronts still had about another 3-4K mi
left in them. I *DO* use the rear in conjunction with the front, nearly
always. So I really cannot understand that rate to brake pad wear at all.

I consider the front to be the "stopping brake", and the rear is the
"control brake". The rear is applied (by me) only after the front. The only
times I'm on the rear and NOT the front is if I need to brush off a little
bit more speed while leaned over (rare), or slow speed maneuvering on loose
surface (sand, gravel, etc.)

Apart from that issue, what is this "hook-like stabilizing arm on the pad" ?
Is that not the anti-rattle clip? If so, and it's installed right, there's
no real way it should impeded the motion of the pad. I suggest you NEVER
alter brake parts. If a part is questionable, replace it with new. Lastly,
the rear brakes on our bikes are a two-piston design. If you have extreme
wear differential from one end of the pad to the other, you may have a
frozen piston rather than a binding pad.

Good luck with the diagnosis.

Ken M.
2000 RS


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