New disc rotors

Giantmatt75
Giantmatt75 Posts: 149
edited September 2016 in MTB buying advice
Been looking at going up in rotor size on my XT brakes from 160mm to 180mm. Whilst looking for a 180mm ice tech rotor I saw a pair of Avid HS 1 rotas for £8.99, this is a much cheaper option but are they total junk ?

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  • turpinr
    turpinr Posts: 255
    Giantmatt75 wrote:
    Been looking at going up in rotor size on my XT brakes from 160mm to 180mm. Whilst looking for a 180mm ice tech rotor I saw a pair of Avid HS 1 rotas for £8.99, this is a much cheaper option but are they total junk ?

    Don't know about the avid rotors being junk but when I replaced the avids CRs on my bike for deores the Shimano rotors were about 0.1mm or 0.15mm thinner
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    They are fine. Generally rotors are rotors.
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  • Giantmatt75
    Giantmatt75 Posts: 149
    Thanks for the replys, have had low end Avid juicy brakes on a couple of bikes and rotors have been fine . Just surprised how cheap they were
  • poah
    poah Posts: 3,369
    don't bother with the HS1 rotor and the XT brakes as the braking surface isn't big enough.
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  • Giantmatt75
    Giantmatt75 Posts: 149
    That's what I needed to know , will stick with the ice rotor and stop being a cheap skate
  • swod1
    swod1 Posts: 1,639
    Giantmatt75 wrote:
    That's what I needed to know, will stick with the ice rotor and stop being a cheap skate

    Do you need icetech discs as you could save some money and just buy some standard shimano discs.

    Are your wheels centre lock rotors too or standard 6 bolt as you may be limited to what you can change to.

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