HELP _ QUICKLY Avid Elixir 5 185mm rotors to Alligator 180mm

supramonsta
supramonsta Posts: 2
edited January 2011 in MTB workshop & tech
Help, i have bent rotors, and am new to all this. I have avid elixir 5 185mm rotors, on IS mounts. To go to alligator 180mm rotors, do i have to buy new mounts, or can i do a washer swap, or file the original mounts? Sorry to be pushy, but there is a big sale on which finishes in 24hours and I can get alligator rotors cheap. I realise that avids are better, but I am only a beginner and have spent too much money already :( Didn't realise that the second hand bike i brought had bent rotors.

Any help appreciated.

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  • Andy B
    Andy B Posts: 8,115
    You can straighten out bent rotors

    http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-hel ... stallation

    You don't need the special tool, a clean adjustable spanner & some patience is all that's required.
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  • ricardo_smooth
    ricardo_smooth Posts: 1,281
    or buy superstar ones
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    well only your rear is IS mount. your front is post mount.

    get some 180 mounts if you want 180 discs.
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  • hennez
    hennez Posts: 255
    why dont you just get some more 185mm rotors???
    My bike takes me places that school never could
  • 02gf74
    02gf74 Posts: 1,171
    ^^^^ becasue he can get the 180 mm cheaper?

    as ^^^^ said before, why can't you strighten them out?

    I did that on a shimano XT centre lock rotor yesterday - just used thumbs on the "spoke" and fingers on the braking surface and gentle coaxing took out somwhere between 0.5 mm and 1.0 mm disc wobble - surpisingly easy to do.
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Could, 24 hrs is up now.
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