JImmySL wroteMine are past their best so I am perhaps looking into getting this sorted, can someone please advise the benefits of doing it this way rather than buying the stainless steel replicas from parts planet on ebay? which works out about £550 delivered for a set
I was advised that the cast iron rotors are not the best idea as they can shatter so if I keep them to one side for originality purposes and fit the replicas to ride with it would be the best solution but seeing this post is making me wonder which is best.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brake-dis...frcectupt=true
I was very tempted by the ones at partsplanet, but as my discs are nice and thick still, I can reuse them on the new carriers and this still works out cheaper. Based on the amount of research I have done on this, this is what I have come up with as reasons, on the assumption you want to be using the bike on the road and not to race, where carbon or stainless steel discs and sintered pads are prevalent.
1. The actual discs are not the part that wears out on the floating discs, but the alloy carrier, which is of a softer aluminium.
2. The bobbins/buttons are very hard wearing and are normally not subject to the same wear as the carriers, but you can buy replacement sets of these relatively cheaply.
3. As long as the discs have decent thickness (not close to being worn out), then they can be remounted on the new carriers and the existing pads can also be retained, if they aren't worn too much either.
4. No idea of what alloy quality the partsplanet discs are, but I have asked these ones to be made out of 7075-T6 and means there was hardly any wear on the alloy on a bike having completed 80,000 km, confirmed by the team in NZ who remade some last time. So in summary, just down to the alloy quality alone, these carriers should last a very long time indeed.
