Conrad
Maximum Pace
- Dec 8, 2014
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Hi all
We we're having a discussion about disc brakes in another thread so I thought I'd start a disc brake thread and pick everyone's brains. I'm experimenting with disc brakes for the first time and I've got a few questions. I recently built up a gravel frankenbike and I've currently got 160mm rotors on the front and back. I changed the front pads to sintered and the rear are still the standard resin pads. A couple of weeks ago I went down Wada and it fried my front rotor and the resin pad. I have since replaced the front rotor and installed sintered pads.
Here is a picture of the worn rotor (notice how far down the rotor the wear extends - thanks for pointing this out @luka ). I'd like to upgrade to a 180mm rotor on the front wheel, what rotor should I use, which will better match the braking surface of the pads (wide rotor?) and will also work well with sintered pads? Thanks in advance for your insights.
I'm leaning towards getting HS1 rotors. Here is a diagram of HS1 rotors showing the position of the pads and the "wear line":
We we're having a discussion about disc brakes in another thread so I thought I'd start a disc brake thread and pick everyone's brains. I'm experimenting with disc brakes for the first time and I've got a few questions. I recently built up a gravel frankenbike and I've currently got 160mm rotors on the front and back. I changed the front pads to sintered and the rear are still the standard resin pads. A couple of weeks ago I went down Wada and it fried my front rotor and the resin pad. I have since replaced the front rotor and installed sintered pads.
Here is a picture of the worn rotor (notice how far down the rotor the wear extends - thanks for pointing this out @luka ). I'd like to upgrade to a 180mm rotor on the front wheel, what rotor should I use, which will better match the braking surface of the pads (wide rotor?) and will also work well with sintered pads? Thanks in advance for your insights.
I'm leaning towards getting HS1 rotors. Here is a diagram of HS1 rotors showing the position of the pads and the "wear line":