# What did you do/buy for your bike today?

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-buy-for-your-bike-today/261343
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [November 15, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-buy-for-your-bike-today/261343 "2011-11-15T13:56:40Z")
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### Author: ![usmc2801](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/usmc2801/32/6387_2.png) [@usmc2801](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/usmc2801)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2013, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-buy-for-your-bike-today/261343/197 "2013-04-15T09:48:45Z")

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> [@rider down](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rider-down/52336/18):
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> Thanks guys, I’ll try the Scotchbrite and alcohol and report when I get to ride it.  
> Might be a while with this weather, we need rain for sure, but not in the middle of April! Where’s all the warmth at?!
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> EDIT:  
> Mystery is solved, 'twas elementary my dear Watson.  
> A couple of weeks ago I took off without removing the disc lock (it was a long work day, I wasn’t thinking clearly) - and just now I noticed where there is a raised area of shiny metal around one of the cross-drilled holes - the pin of the lock dented it slightly.  
> Explains why that area stopped getting contact on both sides of the rotor, also explains why the old pads were screwed up around the wear indicator - the raised area caught the edges.  
> I’ll need to file it down, **hopefully it didn’t screw up the new pads too much.**

Pads are relatively cheap, I would just replace them anyway just to be safe.

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