I have a 2009 S40/savage with 4600 miles on it.  Yesterday I needed new front brake pads.  This seems a little soon.  Any comments?  is this typical?  I love the bike, it is fun to ride and I find it very comfortable and peppy.

Thanks.  Well I had the standard put back on but next time I will know better.  I was kinda in a jam at the time so had them changed out.

I had an '83 Suzuki 650 Tempter. Its OEM front pads wore out at about 5500 miles, if I remember correctly. I replaced them with a non-OEM set (but I don't remember whose) and when I sold the bike at about 14000 miles the pads were still OK. I now have an '07 S40 with over 6000 miles, and the OEM pads still seem OK. The difference seems to be that I now live out of town, and when I had the Tempter I lived in town. You brake more in town, with STOP signs and traffic lights. In short, if you use the brakes they wear out. If you drive in such a way that you don't have to brake much, they last a lot of miles. Remember that brake pads are a consumable.

suzukirider wrote on 05/05/10 at 11:53:51:

I replaced my stock pads at 100 miles,Because I also have a Suzuki 1500 that the brakes were noisy and I replaced them And the replacements were a lot better,The replacements on the S40 are a lot better than the stock brakes too.EBC pads

I had to change my front stock brake pads at around 4300 miles, which hit this spring so I could pass the inspection.