Phil (ascentale)Apr 26, 2024

Next question from @trouble is about brake pads:

Q2. Has anyone seen brake pads like this before? This is my second time coming across pads that look just like this (the plastic and brake material shapes) on a road bike. Look closely; those shiny silver bits? chunks of rim! I yanked these off and replaced them on my bike with Koolstops, but only after the metal bits wore grooves into my rim, ugh #BikeCommuterCabal

Has anyone else seen alarming brake/rim/rotor conditions?

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

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@ascentale @trouble A2: I wore a rim sidewall down so much that the entire sidewall of the rim cracked off. The replacement for that became the second wheel I ever built (the first was when I grenaded the rear hub on my mom’s mountain bike). #bikenite
Apr 26, 2024 at 11:11pmIceCubesApp