Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
I'm confused, I have a feeling your an impostor or you had cheap side pulls. Almost all of my road bikes are side pull brakes from the 80's, only one bike has dual pivot, one has cantilever. One of my bikes with the Superbe side pulls has over 160,000 miles on it and those pads do not wear out faster on one side, and neither do the other pads on the other sidepulls I have on my other bikes.
I think the point was that on the newer dual-pivot brakes, even the rather cheap ones work very well. Compared to the old single-pivot sidepulls where you had get pretty high end stuff to get acceptable performance (a noteable exception being the Shimano SLR single-pivot calipers, before they switched to dual pivot.)