Rear Brake Disc

[packie]

@packie, my rear caliper's absolutely fine, but i had major juddering problems on the front for ages that totally baffled me so i had a tendency to use the rear way more than i should of.
Combine my weight and the bike's, and sintered pads dragging on the discs trying to stop and you end up with a quickly worn disc.
It's no big surprise at all, and there's no hidden problems that i don't know about.
It's still working fine now, but it won't be long before i'll be looking for a new one, and i'll be using softer pads next time.
The juddering at the front turned out to be a faulty braided brake line.

@Darrsi....The "hidden problem" was only an after thought.

The main thing that I was trying to point out to Dude was that your back brake wasn't been ridden in a normal riding condition by you which you did point out to the Dude and which he should take more heed to.

The Dude needs to think about this....you were using the single back disc with a single caliper to do basically the same amount of the work of twin front discs and two excellent front calipers.  If your back brake was getting used more and harder than the front, then basically you are swapping the function of the brakes around. This is abnormal so you got abnormal wear. I have no doubt that you would have done the same to the Brembo. Sintered read pads are a no-no too as they increased the demise of your disc as well. I would suspect also that maybe the rear disc might not be made of the same strength steel as the fronts are, which could also have attributed to your rear's demise. But this is only speculation on my behalf.

Ridden under normal conditions I would expect at least 40k +. How soon you get to 40K is how ofter you ride your bike of course. If you clock up 10k a year which is quite a lot (200 miles a week), you will get about 4 years of wear. As I said earlier, I have 40K up on my Bandit 1200 and that is a way heavier bike than the Fazer and I'm 17st on top of it and use a top box with stuff in it everywhere I go. I have done about 20K of that mileage in touring the continent with a passenger and full luggage (see below) so it has seen it's fair share of usage. But the usage wasn't abnormal. The main power of my brakes came from the front and not the rear. The rear disc have not even wore under the spec yet at 40k and still have a bit of meat on it.