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Created on: 05/27/10 07:34 PM

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Best Rotors Opinions ?
05/27/10 7:34 PM

I am curious to what you guys think are the best rotors on the Market Today. Opinions Please. Galfer SBK, EBC, Braking Any body have or using these little Gems.

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RE: Best Rotors Opinions ?
05/28/10 1:48 AM

Romes,

I tried to get Galfer to come on board as far as showing a How-To with a few products of theirs. They told me they had the OTT guys and thanks but no thanks. I said, who? Then I come across DIS [is embarrassing]...

http://www.onthethrottle.com/content/view/676/1/

You know my answer is going to be OEM for parts. If I pay out of pocket, that is where it will go. As far as an unknown, and double the price? I am not about to take that chance. Anyway, what are the chances I warp a pair just riding the 14 as normal as I do. Could I get the same performance without said aftermarket catching that warp disease?

I know this 14 has no brake problems liquid wise [guy that am I] on the so called shelf-life is here comes the windup. You wonder why I have to pull out that dildo and start slapping some tech advice and you can take that to the bank, we have some kick-off, I'll 1/4 kick my H-D build-off against anyone's full stroke is now here comes the joke.

Squeeze-off, I have 5 to 7 minutes at the most and I am talking start to finish, I come away with the same pedal all fresh oil we are done. Someone is going to spend 20 minutes more; that a titool should have fed that baby step full! Not with dual lines! No wonder he's still pumping! Just had to use all that cleanup of a breast pump, now even more pumps at the lever? Here we go again with more oil flying, warning about fluid all over the place.

How old do you think that oil has, as far as shelf life? I hear processed crude has 100's of years of shelf life. Now I hear 1 month was it? How about 10 year old brake fluid hanging around? That is exactly what is in that 14's front end as we speak and with 1,000's of miles since the last flush. And here is more info about the air? Was not air trapped in the bottle for 10 years? The next breath is the suggestion to have air in the res? Did that not introduce air?

Air out the laundry here and there I have to see more wild how-to's on the net? This is 2BAD on the viewer's side I snap my head back and wt-f kit. Not how I would bleed brakes. I've got the, "quick and dirty" with no trick tools involved. I too am up in the air about buying new discs or burn out another set of pads on the old discs.

Good luck on the disc choice, Romes. I have a front wheel that needs discs. 2 sets of wheels and all that brake apply to see who is junk and who just hums along is to wonder who that winner would be to give you an answer; who beat out the OEM.

And that is WOTie have [nothing good] to say about that. I have too many years at this not to say, "professional" or "expert" is glad I am not one.


* Last updated by: Hub on 5/28/2010 @ 1:51 AM *



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RE: Best Rotors Opinions ?
05/28/10 8:24 PM

Could I get the same performance without said aftermarket catching that warp disease?

This answer plagues Me.


How about 10 year old brake fluid hanging around?


Bottle open 4 six months = Hydroscopic, but it's all I had in the middle of my break down.


Good luck on the disc choice, Romes. I have a front wheel that needs discs. 2 sets of wheels and all that brake apply to see who is junk and who just hums along is to wonder who that winner would be to give you an answer; who beat out the OEM.

I know the prob is my style but this my second set. What to do what to do ? If the new garbage is same as old, problem is me. Must re think. NO ?

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RE: Best Rotors Opinions ?
05/28/10 11:06 PM

I know the prob is my style but this my second set.
The only thing I can think of is too much time on the binders. If you could brake harder, use the brakes less, do you tend to brake as you lift off the throttle? Feel like you are holding the brake on for too long? See where you start to apply the brake and how long are you on the binders for?

If you can find the same place you started to brake, wait longer down to the stopping point, before you keep pouring heat at it. Instead, try short bursts of heat spike that cool fast before they even heat up. Meaning, you are off the brakes and just about coasted to a stop, was how hard you set the levers to slow down on the quick. You are now coasting to a stop, you hardly use the brakes as if to tap and stop.

Water in the oil is exposed as soon as you fill the rez. Are we not working in the humidity of it all? I would not worry. Just flush a lot so the crystal formation under the q-ring does not drag the brake pads, you'll be fine. And that would be the only reason for a ton of fluid changes so the oil does not breakdown to cause it to happen.



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RE: Best Rotors Opinions ?
05/29/10 7:07 PM

do you tend to brake as you lift off the throttle?

No what I have been doing is slamming on the front brake and riding on the front wheel. Hard on rotors. So here we are. I guess you do not think the after market rotors are any better or worth the doe. The guys at the local bike shop are pushing me towards the Braking label.

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RE: Best Rotors Opinions ?
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