Elementary Brakes Question - Road Bike

[BrumJim]

Just getting the hang of 21st Century technology:

Brakes are now at the limit of adjustment on the bike, without pulling the cable through further. The blocks used to look a bit like these, but are now worn down so that the chevrons are no longer visible, and the pads are now worn down below the strange wing-type things on the side.

Firstly, I presume that this means that they now need replacing?
Secondly, they have only lasted 6 months of 13 miles a day, 5 days a week commuting, plus a few fun rides. Is this life normal? Or am I shredding them like a lunatic?

 

[ianrauk]

With all the crap weather we have had over the winter, you have done well. I am lucky to get 3 months out of mine.

Just getting the hang of 21st Century technology:

Brakes are now at the limit of adjustment on the bike, without pulling the cable through further. The blocks used to look a bit like these, but are now worn down so that the chevrons are no longer visible, and the pads are now worn down below the strange wing-type things on the side.

Firstly, I presume that this means that they now need replacing?
Secondly, they have only lasted 6 months of 13 miles a day, 5 days a week commuting, plus a few fun rides. Is this life normal? Or am I shredding them like a lunatic?

 

[4F]

With all the crap weather we have had over the winter, you have done well. I am lucky to get 3 months out of mine.

You want to get yourself a fixed Ian. Still on my first set 18 months later

 

[Landslide]

Just getting the hang of 21st Century technology:
...Firstly, I presume that this means that they now need replacing?

Yes.

And if I may be so bold, I'm not entirely convinced that replacing brake blocks is a particularly recent development in the world of cycling...

 

[ianrauk]

Nah mate... can't be arsed with all that errrrm.... *Arse in the air wiggling* at traffic lights then getting scalped by someone on a real bike..

You want to get yourself a fixed Ian. Still on my first set 18 months later

 

[BrumJim]

The last set I replaced looked like this and I replaced them just before the metal holder started to touch the rims.

 

[Landslide]

Nah mate... can't be arsed with all that errrrm.... *Arse in the air wiggling* at traffic lights then getting scalped by someone on a real bike..

You stop at traffic lights?