How many mile are people getting on average on Rushmore bikes before replacing the brake pads?

I did mine when the dealer had a special last year and they now have 22,008 miles on the pads. I just measured the thickness of a new front pad and the new pads are 0.277" of which 0.140" is metal, and 0..137" is the brake material.

I then measured my used pads, and I have 0.242" and subtracting the metal of 0.140" leaves my braking material at 0.102".

So doing the math, I have 74% of the pad left. I know the wear groove is almost at the bottom of the pad, of realistically speaking, I probably have 65% to 70% safe pad material available.

I bought the new pads, but now am having second thoughts about replacing them until later. What kind of mileage on the front are other people seeing, because I think these will last me another 20,000 miles.

Please spare me the "your results may vary, depending on the type of driving you do". I just want to hear what other people are getting.

 

Milage has nothing to do with brake pads . A taxi in the city gets 2,000 miles to a set of front pads. My pick up truck got 55,000 Do ride a lot of local roads ? or trips ?

 

For what it is worth, I have a 2017 Ultra Ltd and wtih mostly city riding I just replaced both front & back and I just turned 22K.

 

I got 36,000 miles out the first set and almost 38,000 out of the second set.

 

Wow! You do a lot of super slab riding?

 

I try to mix it up. There are so many places to see and you just can't get there and back in a weeks vacation, if you don't take the super slab.

 

17,500

 

Still on first set, front and rear. 25+ on a 15 flhxse

 

I just took my bike in for the the clutch recall with about 17k miles. The service manager told me my back brake pads should be replaced. I am confident that I could have safely put it off for another 5k miles, but that probably would have landed right in the start of riding season when I won't want to have my bike off the road; so I told him to replace them.

 

That was very informative. Based on that, I think I will leave the pads alone and wait until I get back from my trip to replace them. Thanks everybody.