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What's the difference (apart from price) between a standard Hope rotor and a Floating Rotor?
throw them in a river to find out 8)
A standard rotor is one piece of material. A floating rotor consists of 2 pieces, an outer braking surface that 'floats' on a lightweight carrier. The idea is that you will get less disc warp at high temps. Useless for 90% of most MTB some may say.
floating ones look pretty
Lighter as well! Due to the "lightweight carrier". Also using floating rotors unlocks the best cycling associated sound there is....
Ting ting ting ting....
Cheers guys, I'm thinking not worth the extra cash then?
The floating rotors aren't actually very light though.
A 180 is heavier than the standard 180 - at least the ones I have.
Looks better.
Looks, colour choice and lighter (203mm are, anyway)
You should buy on the first point alone.
Floating rotors can come loose on their mounts, one piece rotors don't have that problem.
Function over form for me. 😉