Huh. - rhodeskc: I bet I’m going to be seeing a lot...

23rd January 2012

Photo reblogged from rhodeskc with 7 notes

rhodeskc:

I bet I’m going to be seeing a lot more brake pads look like this soon. The sidewalls are already pretty worn down, so I think I’ll have to hit up the LBS again to teach me how to build a bicycle wheel.

This is why I switched to disk brakes on my commuting bicycle. Once they put the sand down, they don’t clean it up and even with wiping my rims each night and doing a thorough cleaning of rims and pads every weekend, I still wore through thick pads—much thicker than these on my cantilevers—in a matter of weeks and wore all the way through my rims in no more than 3000 miles.It’s a brutal environment around here with sand on the roads, rain coming down, a hilly, short commute like I have with lots of intersections, and carrying my weight and the weight of my cargo in the panniers.

I bet I’m going to be seeing a lot more brake pads look like this soon. The sidewalls are already pretty worn down, so I think I’ll have to hit up the LBS again to teach me how to build a bicycle wheel.

This is why I switched to disk brakes on my commuting bicycle. Once they put the sand down, they don’t clean it up and even with wiping my rims each night and doing a thorough cleaning of rims and pads every weekend, I still wore through thick pads—much thicker than these on my cantilevers—in a matter of weeks and wore all the way through my rims in no more than 3000 miles.

It’s a brutal environment around here with sand on the roads, rain coming down, a hilly, short commute like I have with lots of intersections, and carrying my weight and the weight of my cargo in the panniers.

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