floating rotors any advantages - Bike Forum

Re: floating rotors any advantages

bigyinn — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:55:27 +0000

Much like after you've given the car a good caning, then park up to hear the exhaust pinging / clicking whilst cooling down! "no dear i wasn't trying to thrash the car on the way home whilst listening to Slayer, noooooo".

Re: floating rotors any advantages

allthepies — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:15:18 +0000

pinging noise after heavy use is the USP ;)

Re: floating rotors any advantages

karnali — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:42 +0000

it was the elight weight but just ofund alligator rotors that look very nice and ery light and only 15 quid may give them a go instead

Re: floating rotors any advantages

ChunkyMTB — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:02:10 +0000

I just like the ticking noise as they cool down.

Re: floating rotors any advantages

ooOOoo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:29:22 +0000

I've noticed on my XTR floating rotor I never get any problems with the disc rubbing. The XT normal rotor can rub a bit in a random ways, generally after long fast downhills.

I may try one of these on it, £30 from CRC, cheaper than Hope anyway!
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Images/Models/Full/39007.jpg

Re: floating rotors any advantages

njee20 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:58:22 +0000

If you're going for 160 or 140s then get the Hope Pro floating rotors, they only come in gunsmoke, but they are substantially lighter than a steel rotor, the normal Hope ones less so.

I've not noticed any of the other advantages frankly, they're rotors...

Re: floating rotors any advantages

thefallguy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:47:20 +0000

they look well pimp init :mrgreen:

Re: floating rotors any advantages

TandemJeremy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:42:26 +0000

The only advantage is they are less susceptible to warping if overheated - the braking track can expand away from the spider so it shouldn't warp.

No other advantage

Re: floating rotors any advantages

Black — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:41:48 +0000

They look cool and make pinging noises when cooling.

Pimptastic.....

....and they reduce the amount of heat transferred from the disk to the hub bearings/shell.

They're moderately lighter, 160mm is 78g, which is about 40g lighter than most. Avid G3s are as light.

They're no more powerful, other than you can run a larger floating rotor for the same weight as a smaller steel one.

Re: floating rotors any advantages

ooOOoo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:37:03 +0000

Hopefully less susceptible to warping.