Throwing a brake pad is this common??

[Drago]

I've had it happen with Hope pads.

 

[wonderloaf]

Had it twice with Gorilla pads but they were rather thin so I may be partly to blame!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I've had it happen with Hope pads.

Hope and pray style of braking

 

[roley poley]

thank you for the pictures ...luckily all that have commented have survived the experience !!

 

[albion]

Cheap Chinese pads no doubt. Quite disconcerting.

 

[currystomper]

I've put EBC pads on now, Who have been making brake pads for motor bikes for decades - so hopefully no more problems.

 

[yostumpy]

A few years ago I bought some Clarkes shimano fit disc pads from Wiggle, and yep you guessed it……One of the front pads fell off with a very short time, coming down a hill. I always carry a good used set as spares, so carried on, then some while later, maybe 6 months , one of the rears fell off. Now I never fit pads by the same supplier to both axles.. Wiggle didn’t want to know. Nuke proof have always been good, can’t remember what else I got in there.
Now then, interestingly, some backing plates have holes in them, where the pad material is pushed into, to act as a key, to help the bonding, but the failed ones had no such holes, and were just stuck on.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It’s why you need to have two methods of braking on your bike. Then if one fails you will at least make it home to get it fixed.

 

[cyberknight]

Here is a picture of the brake pad pair. I assume they are original pads from when the bike was new (I purchased it 2nd hand)

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I had the same issue with similar brake pads

 

[PedallingNowhereSlowly]

First thing I did when I got a new disk braked bike was put some spare pads into the toolkit. They don't weight much.