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As I'm getting a new frame, fork, wheels and tyres I'm also going to get new rotors (possibly new SRAM brakes too). Sticking to 180mm front and back. Was going to go with Hope floating rotors but seen a few reports of having to file away material, so now looking at SRAM Centreline 2 piece. Does anyone use these and would they have better feel/power compared to the Clarks/Avid Clean Sweep combo i am currently using with Guide R brakes?
If you want more power, put a 200 mm rotor on the front. Simplest, cheapest way to improve brakes there is.
Yeah the rivets on the Hope rotors can catch the calliper on some other brakes. I tried to run Hope rotors with Sram codes and had no luck.
Like @thols2 said, nothing to loose going up to 200/203 on the front if you need to buy adapters for the new fork anyway.
What about Shimano Deore XT SM-RT 86 rotors?
Once you get past the cheap rubbish there's nothing to gain by changing rotor brand. Getting a bigger rotor or changing pads is the way to improve braking with the same brakes.
Has anyone used the Trickstuff HD Daechle rotors yet? Similar price point to SLX rotors so seem pretty good value.
Once you get past the cheap rubbish there’s nothing to gain by changing rotor brand.
I'd agree with that (Other than Hope, as I've had issues with using hope disks on non hope brakes). But as above if you want to improve the brake or change the feel put a different disk size and play with pad compounds
The centreline rotors are good quality, don't do anything weird like uneven wearing like some heavily drilled/slotted rotors can, and they can be pretty cheap if you shop around, so they generally get my vote. They don't add feel or power, that's not something rotors can really do, in the end they're just a simple surface for the pads to grip.
Floating rotors look nice but they're pointless, and just give you extra stuff to fail. They're also heavier than some plain steel rotors. Honestly there's a lot of fannying about and snake oil in rotors tbh, it's a totally solved problem that people are always trying to squeeze more novelty into
As above, 180mm Planet X £20 each !
Good luck trying to find bigger sizes, they are like hens teeth at the moment !
Has anyone used the Trickstuff HD Daechle rotors yet?
Yeah, they work, they’re as good as anything else really. Chamfered edge is nice, but fitting rotors in to callipers was never really an issue to begin with.
As above, 180mm Planet X £20 each !
@binman thanks for that. I'd looked all over the place for centreline rotors in stock. That's cheaper than getting them from ze Germans!
I needed to swap out some on my hardtail recently - using xt two pots, couldnt get hold of shimano so went with TRP 33 2 piece. Whilst bedding them in i nearly went OTB, they provide quite a bit of bite compared to the shimano i had on before, however that might be because they were contaminated.