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with Ti bolts, nice. [url= http://kettlecycles.com/?btp_product_category=brake-rotors ]Kettle[/url]
[url= http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/kettle-cycles-siccc-sfl-carbon-disc-rotors-just-in-36555/ ]Bikeradar article[/url]
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Kettle have posted some interesting stuff on FB and utube recently.
Awaits a review rather than look whats landed on our desk.
I wonder how cleanable they are if contaminated?
Very expensive though, $149 made to order. Weight comparison to the Formula 180s I bought recently is 121g compared to 74g of the Kettles, one for the pro enduro racers.
Might be a little brittle for everyday use, too.
I wonder how cleanable they are if contaminated?
I've never cleaned my brakes, I do sometimes wonder why people do things like douse them in meths and light them. Have you ever looked in the bottom of a trangia once it's blow out? There's often an oily residue of the 'other' stuff in meths (or IPA, or surgical alcohol). Or expect an oven at 200C to dry off more than the 600C+ they'll likely hit under the pads.
They're made from solid metal, where exactly is the oil going to get to that can't get it removed with a dry tissue?
Might be a little brittle for everyday use, too.
any reasoning to back up that statement?
Not horrendously expensive when compared to these then...
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Might be a little brittle for everyday use, too.
any reasoning to back up that statement?
Thinnish plastic is usually easier to snap than thinnish steel...
messiah - what rotor is that and how much. I've been using these £40 jobbies. My rear rotor got bent from a shunt from the rear, might not have happened if they were carbon.
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plastic?
plastic?
Epoxy is a polymer so we'll forgive that
Thinnish plastic is usually easier to snap than thinnish steel...
Depends on the structure you make it into (both the shape and the direction of the weaves), but CFRP can be very flexible, look at windsurfers masts and fishing rods for a really good example. They're tubes (an inherently stiff shape), I'd imagine a flat sheet to be very flexible!
Rewski... the [url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=76009 ]Formula Aluminium Carrier 6 bolt rotors are £62 each[/url]... and little to no lighter than the ordinary lightweight Formula rotors.
I've seen one of those Formula rotors bend itself in half in use... possibly got hit by something on the trails to make it happen... it's not stopped me using my two pairs as I love the brakes.
I'm up for trying the [s]plastic[/s] carbon ones as I think they will be brilliant.
Messiah... ta, yeh my rotor was pretty taco'd, couldn't completely true it, enough to get home, squealing like a banshee.
I think someone is confusing 'Silicon carbide ceramic carbon' composite with carbon-epoxy composite.
Check this out:
Thinnish plastic is usually easier to snap than thinnish steel...
I think someone missed the lesson about composite materials.