how many mm left before you change your front pads?

[Micky]

Doesn't 'the book' say replace when the inbuilt grooves become none existent and disappear?

 

[Ogmios]

Doesn't 'the book' say replace when the inbuilt grooves become none existent and disappear?

no - you're probably thinking of baldness - the 'groove' being the parting. When that's gone - yer a baldy bollix.
~~

 

[Micky]

no - you're probably thinking of baldness - the 'groove' being the parting. When that's gone - yer a baldy bollix.
~~

I appreciate, having (just) seen that this is in the 850/1100/1150 section that I'm talking myself, personally, about my F800GS and so might be talking a load of bollix

But for the F800GS I'm quite correct Marc

 

[Ogmios]

Micky,
i sit corrected Sir.

 

[The Pilgrim]

Tis cutting long story short, but had same dilema on The Child, '04 R12200Gs.
Changed pads (before service limit) at 40k, Rideout Sunday, Nice sweeping left hander, 60mph ish (your honour). Bastid cow jumps outa hedge.
Thank you EBC HH Sintered and ABS.
I've still no idea how i missed the Beast but his/her tail hit my screen on way past.
CHANGE THE PADS. Please

 

[STUBBS]

grinding noise normaly the give away

 

[Micky]

grinding noise normaly the give away

Five seconds for a visual check, front or rear

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

I find the metal touches the un swept portion of the disc first so that's the time.

Unless you are going on a big trip - buy new and save the old

the outer edge of the disc never wears and will always touch the backing pad first leaving a tell-tale mark and about 1mm of pad material left.

Now obviously this is not what the pad manufacturers want you to do, and the bike manufacturers will always err on the safety side of safety when its written down - but this is how i've done it for the past 35 yrs.
I've saved myself nearly 80.68pence

If i was racing and worried about heat transfer to the fluid then it'd be a different story but not relevant on the road

 

[Michael R1150GS Adventure]

loads of 'visible groove' left

theyre back in now and having a run to the shop to (hopefully) get the right ones.
Bl00dy WMB - they really are a bunch of sweaty knackers. If there is a hard or unusual way to do it, they will bl00dy well do it that way.

Random callipers? Random discs?

Feck me gently with a twist at the end.

 

[Ogmios]

Two versions. And they fitted them randomly.

Wait for the fun and games if you have to order the discs. They are also different. Two types.

I find it so ironic that the company that pioneered "Modular design" over their many models now seem to go out of their way to make it feckin awkward.

 

[Michael R1150GS Adventure]

its as bad as the construction industry