Originally Posted by
tomecki
I live in Vancouver, Canada. It hardly ever snows here but it rains constantly in the winter. I ride some very hilly and dirty roads to work and it kills the brake pads and rims. When it's really bad, I can go through a set of brake pads in a week or two and grind through a rim in a season.
What kind of crappy brake pads are you using ?
Portland is every bit as wet and we do not go through brake pads at that rate and even with all the sand they put on the roads here my brake pads (Kool Stops) last more than a season.
I can see rims wearing out over a winter of continuous riding.