I'm sure many of you are familiar with my '97 Polaris Xplorer 500 seen in many product reviews in the Product Review section. Equipped with NO speedometer/odometer at that time, I'm willing to bet that I have many many miles on the scoot...more than most would guess. My point, I just now replaced the original brake pads, 2 years of riding. One pad on the front left was down to nothing while the rest of the pads still had some material left.
Anybody want to venture a guess why I logged many miles on the OEM pads and some riders have claimed to get maybe 100 or so miles out of theirs?
One note when replacing pads....the top allen screw on the back of the caliper is for pad to disc adjustment and is not to be tightened securely...Hope that might help someone.
Other than replacing the brake pads.....all parts on the quad are still original.

 

Dave,

I don't have the need to replace my pads yet, but I don't have all the miles a '97 would have either. A friend we hunt/ride with has a '97 Xplorer 500 too and running stock pads. This guy also never greased his machine until it was about 1 1/2 years old, and he rode it everyday around his farm. Maybe the Xplorer 500 is bulletproof, and that it supposed to be only a Honda thing, so Polaris dropped it? :-)