Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
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.
I know I was using pretty basic pads, often Koolstops or whatever was on sale at the online discount places. I would go through at least couple sets on both front and rear every winter. I might get two years out of rims before the wear made me nervous. Now I use discs on my foul weather bike. Anyway, I can totally believe that someone that was riding more than my 8 mile round trip could go through pads in mere weeks and rims every winter.