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Looking at the "Tech Randoms" feature on PB for Leogang and noticed some riders running 2 compounds in the same caliper.
Guessing the reasoning behind it is organic probably has better initial bite and the metallic better fade resistance.
Anyone tried this in there normal riding situations?
Might be good for a bike park day.
That hurts my OCD.
Maybe that's why you can get blended compounds, organic, semi metallic, metallic etc.
I guess it's fine for race days when they can happily bin the disks and pads after an event but long term surely one side of the disk would wear out quicker so you'd need to replace disks and pads more often?
This has been going on for years. Minaar was the first rider I knew of that was doing it.
I remember thinking I would definitely try it but never did.
run one race matrix, one sintered in my guides.
no matty that's not really an issue.
clue: it doesn't really matter which side of a disc wears it's the disc braking surface thickness (or lack of) that determines when to replace it.
one pad does wear down ever so slightly quicker than the other though. But also not really an issue at all
WTF is "normal riding situations"?
WTF is “normal riding situations”?
I probably should have said:
Not being a flat-out Billybigballs WCDH racer.....
As in normal/mortal rider type person
it doesn’t really matter which side of a disc wears
It does with composite discs like ice tech where there is a steel /aluminium sandwich.
Don't get me wrong, I'm defo splitting hairs here, I'm just thinking logical for long term use. Rather than throw away race day stuff.
New icetechs are 1.8mm thickness and are meant to be replaced when worn down to 1.5mm.
They start to show the alu when worn to around to 1.3mm.
I'll leave the arithmetic to you Rainman 😉
I've never worn a rotor out.
🤪 imagine the possibilities with one of the four pot types with four separate pads... (actually not sure if anyone but Magura still do this)
Consider the multi-faceted aptness of the phrase: "hedging your bets"