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<blockquote data-quote="blufjr" data-source="post: 845605" data-attributes="member: 737"><p>Stay with OEM-Yamaha pads. I can remove the pads on my Gen 1 without tools (did this yesterday on the left side only), although tools can help a lot if there is a little resistance. In the past I have used a pointy tool to remove the clips and a par of pliers to pull the pin. If you loosen the caliper bolts you can wiggle them back and forth a little to increase the gap between the pads and rotor. the pads will just pull out the top.</p><p></p><p>Lesson learned on the Gen 1 is to rotate the pads as the left inside pad will wear over twice as fast as the left outside and 4x faster than the right units. I have 129,000 and have gone thru two sets of OEM (1st and 3rd) I went with a group buy and purchased some Lorrane (?) units that didn't perform any better than the OEM' s and made the wheel all dirty as well as only lasted 35,000 miles. The bike is due for new pads at this time. If I had rotated the pads, i would have gotten at least 75,000 out of one set. Like tires, brake pads last different miles for different riders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blufjr, post: 845605, member: 737"] Stay with OEM-Yamaha pads. I can remove the pads on my Gen 1 without tools (did this yesterday on the left side only), although tools can help a lot if there is a little resistance. In the past I have used a pointy tool to remove the clips and a par of pliers to pull the pin. If you loosen the caliper bolts you can wiggle them back and forth a little to increase the gap between the pads and rotor. the pads will just pull out the top. Lesson learned on the Gen 1 is to rotate the pads as the left inside pad will wear over twice as fast as the left outside and 4x faster than the right units. I have 129,000 and have gone thru two sets of OEM (1st and 3rd) I went with a group buy and purchased some Lorrane (?) units that didn't perform any better than the OEM' s and made the wheel all dirty as well as only lasted 35,000 miles. The bike is due for new pads at this time. If I had rotated the pads, i would have gotten at least 75,000 out of one set. Like tires, brake pads last different miles for different riders. [/QUOTE]
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