anyone know if brake pads are hard to put on? is like putting on a cars brake?

 

It's a piece of cake... take the pins out that hold the pads, pull old pads out, remove caliper, clean caliper and piston seals real good, push pistons back in caliper and put pads and pins back in. Reinstall caliper, tighten pins, clean everything up with a lil brakleen, and there ya go! Super easy....

 

but...what about bleeding the brakes

does that have to be done or not?

when changing the pads, do i need bike on stand or not?

 

You only have to bleed them if you open the lines and get air in them. You're only changing the brake pads, you're not doing anything with the lines so no bleeding necessary.

And no, you don't need the bike on a stand to do the pads. Just turn the bars one way or the other and you get a good view of the front calipers whichever side you're working on. The rear is right there so it's easy too

 

thanks man.

by the way, does your bike really have more than 90,000 miles on it? do you ride that much?

 

Not a problem

And yup, that's the correct mileage... it's at exactly 97,742 right now. I do tend to ride alot, hahah

 

i wonder what happens when it hits 100k

 

it spontaneoulsy combusts.

 

Hey Jared - Automotive Brake Cleaner is cool to use to clean up the caliper/pistons?

 

People are amazed when I tell them I have 26k on my 05F4i .... 97k is an acheivment haha.