I'll be inspecting my brakes today during the full required service schedule . Most of my 5,000+ miles has been in local canyons and mountains. I am also very hard on them when testing stopping distance on each ride. I know it sounds kind of lame, but I feel it's very important to test the panic stopping distance often before I have to use it in a real situation.
What is a mind blower is the wear limit. Yamaha has replacement recommended at .8mm. There is no way in hell I'm going to let my pads get that worn. I recommend changing them out at about 50% wear. My reason is because the thinner the pad gets the hotter the pads/brake fluid gets. That in turn leads to increased stopping distance.
I'm still on the fence as to what brake pads I will be getting to replace the worn ones. On my street bikes and Honda dirt bikes I always replaced with OEM. On my European dirt bikes I used organic for trail riding and full blown sintered pads for dual sport and desert racing.
I'm not sure on the Super Tenere? Either the HH EBC or OEM. No way on the organic as those pads are simply not safe to slow down this big of a beast.
My future plan is to replace, rotors, pads, fluid and brake lines in one shot. Hopefully after the rotors are worn past the service limit or the brake lines are swelling.
My bike has been setting a lot so I may go over the 4 year required brake line replacement. I have to admit I am very nervous to have rubber brake lines over 4 years old. Every single Japanese bike I have owned since the 90's has got steel braided lines within the first few seasons of ownership.
I'll go out there today and measure the line diameter coming out of the calipers. That is normally the first part of the brake line that swells. I kick myself in the butt for missing that measurement when I got the bike new. Oh well, I'll measure brake line diameter in a few spots. As long as it stays consistent then I figure I'm pretty safe.
