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It's pretty hard to get bicycle pads hot enough to overheat them with a bit of commuting, you generally need to be going pretty hard down a big hill to get them hot enough to glaze the surface. If you spend a lot of time lightly dragging the brakes though you can kind of polish the surface of the pads which will act the same and reduce friction and make braking noisy and shit.