indyfabz

Of course they did. Of course you didn’t.

Hope you’re well paid if you’re going to be going through pads every week.

LarrySellerz

the new pads have held up fine, weather is better but they must be higher quality. Maybe the old ones were ancient even though it’s supposedly a new bike. Rubber gets hard I think, especially in the sun, idk.

i wouldn’t make up a random story like this, you won’t believe me, but that’s ok.

indyfabz

You are correct: I am secure in my disbelief.

XxHaimBondxX

It barely rains once a year there, so you bought a brand new bike for that occasion with the funds you saved by ripping off food pantries?

RH Clark

Seems like anyone would about have to set up the perfect conditions and do it on purpose. That heavy, long hill, coat the pads and rims with sand at the top every day. Yea, I can see it as possible, but nearly impossible for how most people ride bikes. Back in my day, we tried to avoid sand and mud as much as possible. Today people want to play in it. If that's your game great, but you need the proper equipment for the game. Larry, I would say you need to stick with disc brakes.

Yan 

If you don't believe him, then just ignore the thread and move on. Why are you sticking around for so many posts just to harangue somebody? I don't see how he would gain anything by lying to making up such a random story on an internet forum.

But yeah, wearing out a set of pads that fast, that's crazy. Maybe something wrong with those pads. New pads that came with the bike, who knows what origin of pads they're using. Good luck with the new set.

njkayaker

It's not likely that a new bike would have "ancient" brake pads. So, I guess you are saying the bike is "ancient" (not actually new). A "couple of years old" wouldn't be "ancient".

You bought the thing. You should be able to tell people here exactly what you bought.

The amount of nonsense you spew here isn't going to do much to make people have any faith in what you say (the "boy who cried wolf" story has a lesson for you).

It's somewhat surprising you (a self-proclaimed expert) didn't figure out there was an issue with the brakes before wearing them out to be metal-on-metal.

Of course, you didn't take pictures since doing so would help other people see what is going on better.

What you are describing is very unusual. Unusual enough to lead people to suspect your story is missing some crucial information.

Sounds like part of your problem is poor braking technique. It's possible that the brakes on the commuter bike aren't good enough.

tomato coupe

Larry cannot foresee parts wearing out:

njkayaker

It's not an issue of foreseeing anything. One should be able to feel the brakes performing poorly in the present.

tomato coupe

You can't apply normal logic when discussing Larry's bike issues.

indyfabz

You must be new around here.

I mean, OP aside, you are unaware of the member who formerly posted lies in the Touring forum and who, at one point, created a sock puppet girlfriend user?

Craptacular8

I've seen a couple references to this person...but, must have not been reading the Touring forum often enough to notice...who dis?

indyfabz

He whose name shall not be mentioned.

mstateglfr 

[/size]You are undumb. You know what a troll is. You could cite multiple reasons why someone would lie on a forum.

I am not claiming Larry is a troll. I am claiming you could list reasons why people lie and what they could gain from trolling.

kcjc

Are they carbon cork brake pads or variants for carbon rims? Pads from/for your carbon rims? What's the shop's name?

LarrySellerz

cheap rim brakes on a cheap bike, all city or pure cycles or something, it’s a single speed brand but this is a road bike

mstateglfr 

Wait- you don't know the brand of bike that you purchased and ride?
That's wild, even for you.

njkayaker

Stop wasting people’s time.

njkayaker

It’s Larry asking other people for help. It’s other people’s problem that he is too lazy (?) to provide any sort of information.

LarrySellerz

it is it fact “pure cycles” but I’ll probably forget again, because it’s some cheap single speed brand that sells a road bike for some reason. Identical to the other cheap fixie brands.

LarrySellerz

are you unfamiliar with cheap chromo frame bikes from the urban commuter fixie brands? They are essentially all the same thing. Narrowing it down more than that is frankly an insult to the intelligence of our fellow board members.

njkayaker

You could easily do more for the people you keep asking help from.

Frankly, this is BS. It seems most of “our fellow board members” are skeptical of your story. Your posts routinely “insult their intelligence”.

cyclomath

A really good friend of mine commutes on an old (~20yrs) MTB with v-brakes. He buys the cheapest brake pads he can find, which amount to less than I thought possible (less than $2/pair), at least in physical stores. The friend is about 120kg (~260lbs) and he needs new pads every 200-300km (less than 200 miles). He is a professional driver (drove 18-wheelers in USA for years too), so he knows how to apply brakes efficiently. The thing is, those pads seem to be made of some sort of cheap plastic, which may or may not contain some cheap rubber. They are of standard size, but I suspect that they simply are not meant to be used on adult bicycles, though there is nothing on the packaging that states that. I have no idea if such pads are installed on cheapest new bicycles over here (southern Europe), though I would not be shocked considering the trash one can find in stores.

I managed to completely obliterate a set of Jagwire v-brake pads in less than a thousand kilometers (600 miles), but that was on a tour through mountains and mostly on rugged unpaved terrain, with four panniers and a big bag on top of the rear rack.

Not all pads are made equal and some of them are much, much, much less equal than others.

smd4

Go ahead. I promise I won't be insulted.