Recommend me a 180 front rotor please.

weeksy59

After a new rotor as one of mine is warped i think ... loads of judder under braking. Will confirm by fitting my 2nd set of wheels tonight. But i'm 99% sure it's warped.

Up to now, the list is

Shimano XT RT75 @ £22 from CRC

Superstar Floating Rotor 180mm @ £26 from Superstar

I'm not too worried about weight as such, or even aesthetics... although a Superstar in Blue is pretty cool... but if they're rubbish i won't get one lol

The Hope floating are £35... worth it over the Superstar ?

nicklouse

Floating are not worth it.

any will work fine.

1mancity2

nicklouse wrote:

Floating are not worth it.

any will work fine.

+1 I have the SS flame design on the dj and they work a treat.

weeksy59

Thanks lads.

allthegearnoidea

ive the Hayes style Superstar rotors on mine, been absolutely fine, and at £12 ish fir a 203 cant complain!!
if looking nice is part of it then have a search on mtbr.com forum for painting rotors, loads of them did it, and it looked quite good,

stubs

I have just bought the Shimano ones with the aluminium centre. They look really nice and were both dead flat when out of the packet. Gave them a beasting on sunday in the mud and they were silent unlike my old Avid set up.

Twelly

Superstar rotors are like a tenner each. Don't pay any more than that, they all do the same job. I'll sell you some rotors for £35 each if you want to waste some money

weeksy59

TwellySmat wrote:

Superstar rotors are like a tenner each. Don't pay any more than that, they all do the same job. I'll sell you some rotors for £35 each if you want to waste some money

Do they have HOPE written on them

Twelly

They can do, let me get my 'engraving tool'

felix.london

Got the SS 'Wave' design in a 180. Stops me and the bike without problems

Twelly

felix.london wrote:

Got the SS 'Wave' design in a 180. Stops me and the bike without problems

Likewise

mrmonkfinger

weeksy59 wrote:

After a new rotor as one of mine is warped i think ... loads of judder under braking.

Probably just pad/disc contamination. Sand the pads a bit, clean off the disc... you never know.

But a new disc might well fix it all, so don't let me stop you

allthegearnoidea

Is easy enough to straighten a rotor, if you don't have the tools you can do it by hand! I use a adjustable wrench, jaws Cleaned first! ;-) does just the same job!
If you do tackle a diy straighten then use a pen to mark the spoke of the disc as such so you know which one it is after you've had a go!

weeksy59

I'm not getting any rubbing on the rotor, so if it's out, it's only fractionally out.

I needed a 180 rotor for my spare rear anyway, so ordered 2 from Superstar.

I stuck my spare front on last night for testing and all seems good, so pretty sure it's the rotor that has a minor issue.

For the sake of £12, i'd rather just get a new one instead of messing about trying to fix it.

If either of you boys want it, i'll post it out