Anyone used any of these or something similar? Are they worth buying or am I going to end up dying in a fireball off the side of Widowmaker at Afan?
FWIW, snail chainrings seem fine. Bit less "crititcal" though
These look terrifying interesting, from the ‘you may also like’…
Brand: ShenZhenShiShiLiLanTianKeJiYouXianGongSi
Rolls off the tongue well eh?
More seriously, I’d have no issues running one piece, fairly simple rotors. Adding complexity via floating rotors, not so much. They’d probably be fine, it’d be a confidence thing for me.
Multipiece rotors for mountain bikes are bloody stupid tbh, plain steel is the way to go, there's no real advantage to it and it's extra points of failure (Hope had problems with theirs for years).
There's an argument that with cheap stuff you're actually better to go with slightly harder to make products though. Any idiot with access to the tooling can make steel rotors out of any bit of flattish thin steel, but most people can't design/copy and make multi piece rotors so it sets a bit of a minimum threshold.
I've got some snail chainrings, they're fine, don't last as well as Works but probably just as good as most rings.
I bought some 203mm sram G2 ones off ebay for 8.50 or so and they work fine. Sram only make 200 not 203 so pretty sure they are knock offs
I’m in the **** that camp.
One peice rotors are cheap, I’d get some clarkes or something.
The reviews aren't exactly glowing, especially about the quality. I'd pass and get some basic one piece rotors.
I've had loads of cheap, unbranded rotors from ebay they've all been fine. Couldn't see or feel any difference between them and the much more expensive Hope or Sram models.
I kept it simple though, don't buy anything funny looking.
They're a standard design that a lot of branded companies use so I'd have no issues using those, they're probably from the same factory. They do have the correct offset join round the rivets so the word they'll do is rattle a bit after getting properly hot. But as others have said, some basic Tektro or similar rigid discs would be just as good.
I ran some equivalents from Ali express on my gravel bike, £6 an end. I didn’t die
I've got some snail rotors, and I'm not dead, yet.....
No way. Clarks or LifeLine, even if it's £3 more, even for the former where the design is the same as what OP bought.
I bought some 203mm sram G2 ones off ebay for 8.50 or so and they work fine. Sram only make 200 not 203 so pretty sure they are knock offs
Sram make 203mm rotors:
https://www.sram.com/en/service/models/rt-cln-a2
I've used loads of snail rotors. s I type this I'm sure I'm still alive.
Been using snail rotors on my Cross bike for a while now and not dead.
Got a pair of them in Black (180/160) and have been on tye bike for around 12months and been faultless so far, no rattling either.
The worst I can say about them is the logos look shite(fixed with a black Sharpie).
Lebycle do ones with quite a solid centre. Those Snail ones look like they've had a fair bit cut out of them. Wouldn't they be likely to come under stress and break?
Bit expensive these Lebycle rotors compared to where I am. But when I couldn't keep my Shimano centerlock plain steel rotors straight I got these ones. Been far, far better and don't seem to suffer anything like the same heat twisting rotor problems anymore. I had some mineral oil issues I initially though were rotor/pad issues) mentioned here previously) but a full bleed sorted that.