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a years use is reasonable.
Further proof TJ spends to much time here dominating threads.
A set of sintered Hope pads on my M2's last me three months max. Obviously the miles and conditions are more important than the arbitrary time scale, but the point is this-
"TJ, stop dribbling on here, and go MTBing."
The factors that affect wear include:-
Type of use
Riding style
type of pad material
Brake type
Soil/ grit type
outside temperature
rain
Disc material
Bedding in
I don't really want an argument I just want you to think before you open your gob, and most of what you said in the last post makes sense, why didn't you say it in the first place?
I know a fair bit about it, my good friend did his PHD with EFi who make EBC and a fair few other pads (or did might have gone bust now). I spent nearly a week reading his thesis and then a month or so working 9-5 researching the background of brake pad compostion and its effects on friction and wear for a project I helped write the proposal for and help manage when it eventually got funded. 5 years prior to that I worked on developing wear resistant low friction coatings for bearings in oil pipeline strings. When you want to make hard wearing low friction materials you quickly become familiar with the mechanisms of friction and wear. Have you ever used a talysurf, have you ever used an SEM to make stereoscopic calcs of surface wear, have you ever designed, executed and digested the results of 100's of wear tests?
I have done those things and I do not feel qualified to spout so accurately as you have on the topic of friction materials.
I just want you to think before you open your gob,
I wish I could!
Just a tad patronising from you tho boy. 😯
and most of what you said in the last post makes sense, why didn't you say it in the first place?
It was - just in simpler form! Perhpas you take your own advice?
Just a tad patronising from you tho boy.
Ah well I think patronisation is what is required here, its no bad thing when a whipper-snapper steps out of line.
I know a fair bit about it, my good friend did his PHD with EFi who make EBC and a fair few other pads (or did might have gone bust now). I spent nearly a week reading his thesis and then a month or so working 9-5 researching the background of brake pad compostion and its effects on friction and wear for a project I helped write the proposal for and help manage when it eventually got funded. 5 years prior to that I worked on developing wear resistant low friction coatings for bearings in oil pipeline strings. When you want to make hard wearing low friction materials you quickly become familiar with the mechanisms of friction and wear. Have you ever used a talysurf, have you ever used an SEM to make stereoscopic calcs of surface wear, have you ever designed, executed and digested the results of 100's of wear tests?
Yeah big deal - you have yet to email a couple of suppliers to discuss? Come on 😉
Yeah so what? My mum knitted me this jumper. 🙂 I like SS pads. Now that they have sorted the backing falling off problem with an early batch, they're as good as anyone elses. Mine last 6 months or more but I'm a fat knacker who beds them in properly. I think that, as TJ has alluded to, these are factors in getting the pads to the right temperature.
you have yet to email a couple of suppliers to discuss?
Damn and suppliers never ever bullshit about their products to make the client feel good about themselves, so you can believe everything they tell you. Foolish me.