Places To Bed in Your Brakes

[dragons4life]

I don't know if one has already been started regarding this topic, bur if their is whatever there another one then lol. Anyway The main point is to make life easier for people to have places that are good around the GTA for brake beddin.


Locations:

1. Hwy7 to Keel (Road empty After 11:30pm)

2. Yorktech Drive (Past Nextmod but same street)

3. Rodick Rd nice long stretch

anyway if you have other locations plz add on.

[Shawn]

On highway / off highway. Like a loop bayview and leslie and back.

[Donutz]

Yep, what he ^ said. I wouldn't be bedding brakes on the street, and I certainly wouldn't post locations on the forum as you will need to exceed the speed limits on the street and your brakes won't bite hard enough if you really need them. Off ramps are the safest place to do this as you won't (shouldn't) break the speed limit and you have a safe area to run off if your brakes don't bite like expected. Just make sure you do this off of peak hours.

[taz4432]

Yep, what he ^ said. I wouldn't be bedding brakes on the street, and I certainly wouldn't post locations on the forum as you will need to exceed the speed limits on the street and your brakes won't bite hard enough if you really need them. Off ramps are the safest place to do this as you won't (shouldn't) break the speed limit and you have a safe area to run off if your brakes don't bite like expected. Just make sure you do this off of peak hours.

An off-ramp is good for what, one of the 10 or so total 'runs' required?

Depending on where you live, go find an empty country road. Nothing better and within reasonable means nothing safer, either. They're generally long and straight, relatively flat and smooth and there's no traffic nor are there many, if any houses and no worries of kids and/or drunks running around. Best of all, country roads are general 80km/h speed limits. 10 over is generally accepted as a 'safe' speeding limit and on country roads it's generally 20 over. Either way, and even if you go up to only 80, you will be able to bed in your breaks quite easily and quite quickly. Oh, and you won't generally be attracting any attention because there's no attention to attract unlike bedding brakes in on/off the highway.

Oh, and if something happens or you do something stupid, 99.9% of the time the only person involved is you on a country road whereas on the highway or some other city road even if the accident/event doesn't directly involve someone, it'll often effect a lot more people indirectly/in the long run (think traffic jams).

Note: I don't condone racing on the streets in any form nor do I believe in excessive speeding.

[Donutz]

The off ramp provides plenty of room in front of you to come to a near stop. I agree a country road is a better place to bed your brakes, but I've never had a problem using an off ramp for this purpose.

[bunchi]

me i did kennedy north from maj mac, then elgin mills, then mccowan south, then maj mac again, and then back to kennedy :chuckle

[taz4432]

The off ramp provides plenty of room in front of you to come to a near stop. I agree a country road is a better place to bed your brakes, but I've never had a problem using an off ramp for this purpose.

Err...I agree that there is plenty of room on an off-ramp (make sure there are no cars behind, of course) but my main concern is that there's one off-ramp. You're going to have to keep going in big circles to get in the amount of hard stops you need whereas with a country road you can sometimes get all 8 or 10/whatever # of hard stops in without ever turning around. Either way, it's not that hard to find places to do it safely and within legal limitations.

[dragons4life]

Err...I agree that there is plenty of room on an off-ramp (make sure there are no cars behind, of course) but my main concern is that there's one off-ramp. You're going to have to keep going in big circles to get in the amount of hard stops you need whereas with a country road you can sometimes get all 8 or 10/whatever # of hard stops in without ever turning around. Either way, it's not that hard to find places to do it safely and within legal limitations.

Give us some locations you been at

[Donutz]

Ahh, gotcha! No more posting when I'm half asleep on the train! I brake about 150 meters before the end of the ramp so I have enough space to slow down, crawl up to the line without stopping, and when the light turns green I head off. I hit the on ramp and head to the next off ramp. Where I bed my brakes it is very safe to use this method; long straight off ramps, no traffic, and plenty of room to slowly roll to the intersection if the light is red.

One could also do this where the off ramp is also the beginning of a new lane not requiring you to stop.

[taz4432]

Ahh, gotcha! No more posting when I'm half asleep on the train! I brake about 150 meters before the end of the ramp so I have enough space to slow down, crawl up to the line without stopping, and when the light turns green I head off. I hit the on ramp and head to the next off ramp. Where I bed my brakes it is very safe to use this method; long straight off ramps, no traffic, and plenty of room to slowly roll to the intersection if the light is red.

One could also do this where the off ramp is also the beginning of a new lane not requiring you to stop.

Definitely. You did bring up a good point though and that is trying to avoid stopping if at all possible. It's a lot easier to go without fully stopping out in the 'boonies' than it is in mid-town Toronto/GTA. The biggest thing, though, is to be safe about it all and look for the things you mentioned.


Give us some locations you been at

Uhh...Northeast of 48 (Markham Rd. further South) & Elgin Mills. TONS of straight as an arrow roads with essentially no traffic at any time of day. This is pretty close to me since I live at Bathurst & Elgin Mills but for you it may be a bit of a jaunt. There's lots out in the west end too. Milton/Halton region has tons of fantastic country roads, some of which are beauties to drive. If you live further East or West than those areas and don't know where some empty country roads are then I'd offer you my hand to get out of the hole you're living in. :P /Just buggin' ya, know offense intended.

[dragons4life]

Definitely. You did bring up a good point though and that is trying to avoid stopping if at all possible. It's a lot easier to go without fully stopping out in the 'boonies' than it is in mid-town Toronto/GTA. The biggest thing, though, is to be safe about it all and look for the things you mentioned.



Uhh...Northeast of 48 (Markham Rd. further South) & Elgin Mills. TONS of straight as an arrow roads with essentially no traffic at any time of day. This is pretty close to me since I live at Bathurst & Elgin Mills but for you it may be a bit of a jaunt. There's lots out in the west end too. Milton/Halton region has tons of fantastic country roads, some of which are beauties to drive. If you live further East or West than those areas and don't know where some empty country roads are then I'd offer you my hand to get out of the hole you're living in. :P /Just buggin' ya, know offense intended.


O damn i forgot how boring it is up near elgin mills lol.....since i've done my brake in for my rotors time for a final beddin for the pads lol.

[VaderX]

Whats a good speed to go from and to for bedding? 100 to 40 is good?

[taz4432]

Whats a good speed to go from and to for bedding? 100 to 40 is good?

I usually go to nearly a full stop but not complete so ~10 maybe? Not more than that though. The last one you come to a complete stop.