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[Closed] Has anyone ever set fire to anyting with their disk brakes?

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If not, has anyone ever measured how hot they get?


 
Posted : 24/09/2013 10:18 pm
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They're nowhere near hot enough for combustion.
Skin burns however.............


 
Posted : 24/09/2013 10:20 pm
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burned my leg on one which left a near perfect inprint of the rotor on my calf


 
Posted : 24/09/2013 10:20 pm
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mine turned purple on a massive descent in andorra one year


 
Posted : 24/09/2013 10:22 pm
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As a disc newbie, years ago, I got a nice disc rotor burn on my forearm when picking the bike up by forks and seat tube to put it on the car bike rack as soon as I pulled into the car park at the bottom of a steep hill!


 
Posted : 24/09/2013 10:24 pm
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mates went blue on last weeks descent 😆


 
Posted : 24/09/2013 10:24 pm
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What size disk for lightly grilled pinkies?


 
Posted : 24/09/2013 10:25 pm
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us blokes are talkin about our dics turning blue and purple


 
Posted : 24/09/2013 10:31 pm
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I melted a hole in some shorts a few years ago,


 
Posted : 24/09/2013 11:39 pm
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1st proper go with a proper bike in Morzine 10+ years ago I go to straighten the bars after a crash and end up with Hayes written on my calf for a month.

Never set fire to anything but I don't put the bike down disc side first in summer here in Oz, too much tinder dry stuff out there.


 
Posted : 24/09/2013 11:45 pm

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