[Closed] Nice DIsks

slight hijack but would there be much interest if someone was to offer a custom disc rotor service?

Hope do a custom disc service I think

CRC do fancy ones, but they are £45 each. Stuff with flames, dragons etc. on them.

I'd be interested in custom ones, if I could afford them. However, I feel that they would be quite a bit more than standard rotors & my sensible side would say no!
Some of the 'funky' rotors also look as if quite a lot of material has been removed - I wonder what testing they have been through to make sure the rotor doesn't just snap from the spider.

What do you mean by nice looking?

Alligator discs on Ebay.

I'd like to see some comedy ones with hamsters cut out, or flowers or something.

The whole flame/sharp edge thing is a bit dull.

Horrible looking
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Nice looking
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That's not a brilliant example because I CAN'T FIND ANY NICE LOOKING DISKS, but you get the jist.

or flowers or something.

Didn't Hope do some flowery ones to go with their pink Monos.

I think these look nice, but I only bought them because they were cheap...

[url= http://www.discobrakes.com/?s=0&t=4&c=55&p=673& ]Discobrakes rotors[/url]

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Does it matter what they look like? How they work is rather more important - or is your bike for looking at not riding?

Yes Jeremy, I barely do any riding at all.

I use these from Ashima - 160mm No squeal in the wet is an added bonus.
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Matthew

I don't like those very much Cha****ng (or the alligator ones) but there is one on discobrakes which is OK, bit boring but it's better than the avid one.

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clearly 'nice looking disks' is a very subjective subject. 😉

Orange did do a nice range as already mentioned, nothing wrong with pimping your bike out.

Samuri, I've got one of those discs from Discobrakes, in reality it looks really cheap and nasty, you want XT rotors they are nice.

Hope did do some flowery ones - if thats your thing

Maybe a local machine shop with a laser cutter could make you some? 😯

Ashima Air rotors?

clearly 'nice looking disks' is a very subjective subject.

Good lord yes.

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Try again with the image......

Matthew

The original XT ones are the nicest looking IMO.

what about metal matrix rotors...half the weight ..the discs dont wear though

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Something like that?

Nice discs...nice discs.... eh?! You all need to ride more; a discs a disc, so long as it works, isn't worn and doesn't squeal.

I can't help Samurai, I prefer the Avid ones... 🙂

TJ and Aviemoron, it's possible to have form [i]and[/i] function, bikes do not have to look crap.

how about some old stylee hope gothic rotors?

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i like 'em

i think jenson usa can make some, but at $49 each they aint cheap. i got one off a friend for a tenner so i'm happy!

[i]You all need to ride more; [/i]

Do you want to compare mileage or number of times out on a bike? I'm guessing I'm going to win that one.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a bike to look the way you want it to. I want something that looks better than the Avid disks, I'm amazed it's an issue for some people.

I just like Shimano XTR centre lock discs. Can you get a better looking disc? I thing round discs look much better than a wavey ones. They work better too!

njee20's suggestion is my favourite so far.

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thanks.

Samuri - you slightly misunderstood me. I know from your posting you ride a lot - its just I can't see the point of possibly compromising function for looks - and while its nice to have your bike look nice it rates far down my list of priorities.

I actually have a set of hope rotors with the holes as lightning flashes. rather nice

Why not contact hope - I can't find custom rotors on their site now but they certainly used to do them

thought i would not care, but looking down the CRC rotor list/photos...........

Samuri, any what colour/best looking type thread attracts negative comments. Don't worry about it. The fact they take the time to comment on it speaks volumes.
(and fwiw i prefer the standard Avid G2/3's, and spunk the dosh on straitline levers 😉 )

Do you want to compare mileage or number of times out on a bike? I'm guessing I'm going to win that one

Look how big my winky is!! 😉

they've got some here..

http://www.woollyhatshop.com/category.php?id=49

You were saying I love my bike TJ, like this. oooh oooh oooh. I quite like the Hope V2 actually, pirty it doesn;t seem to come in 160mm.

Formula Oro is winning at the moment, I'm sure that will be good performance as well as looking nice IMO.

Wasnt there a company in northern ireland that did really good discs, and special, massive ones for a hope mono6, something like 280mm discs? I think they were called raven industries or something like that...

dick, those ride it like you stole it ones - wouldn't the writing be backwards if they were mounted the right way round?

I think the standard Hope floating rotors look pretty good

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anybody doing funky anno ones yet?

bad news brown.
in my experience, unless the track widths are the same, you can end up buggering up your brakes.

tfb, they would be the wrong way around if you were viewing it from the right, but brakes go on the left :s
so no

the arms should lead forward towards the hub, so braking pushes down the arm, not pulls across it.

The Artist, I've got Hope floaters on my Cham, and because it looks like a motorbike, I can a) make broom broom noises, and b) I look well cool, c) girls notice me more, and d) I go faster.

All true, thanks to Hope...

ashima samples i saw last week with stove enameled centers lookd pretty cool stoner

braking surfact obviously still silver but anything not touched by brakes was red on both sides .....

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR - wot he said.

ashima samples i saw last week with stove enameled centers lookd pretty cool stoner

braking surfact obviously still silver but anything not touched by brakes was red on both sides

Thats the kind of needless aesthetics we should all aspire to.
TJ can carry on riding around in a hairshirt if he wishes.

I'd like rotors with lazer cut outs of animals you see while riding- squirrels, wabbits, deer, sheep, doggies & beastwithtwobacks.

Surprised nobodys mentioned http://www.dirtydogmtb.com/rotors.htm

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needless aesthetics enough for me 😉 3 bolt saws....

tfb, they would be the wrong way around if you were viewing it from the right, but brakes go on the left :s
so no

i know which way round the braking force should apply to the arms, and i'm still sure they're the wrong way round - if you imagine a mountain bike with the braced arms on the rotors pointing forwards, then in the picture we're effectively looking at the side nearest the drivetrain, with the front of the bike to the right. i'm positive!

cf. this:
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correctly mounted rotors. you can't mount those ones with the writing on the correct way round for the writing to be read from the left, the "outside"... you just can't!

i'm right, aren't i? admit it!

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well?

I think they're fugly flatboy

so do i, i hate them. i didn't post them in the first place. but my point is that the writing's the wrong way round. olly claims not. what say you?

Ah, I see.

Dunno *shrugs*

It is if you go with perceived wisdom...It's not clear to me that the rotors [i]must[/i] be mounted a certain way though.

I would say that rotor should be mounted the way we're looking at it now. That way the spokes will 'lead' as they rotate and I don't suppose it matters which way round it is mounted, the spokes aren't going to compress at all.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a bike to look the way you want it to.

Flatboys right.

Samuri, here you go, i like the Northern Star...

http://www.muckynutz.com/shop.html

As I still own the disc rotor and have done since new, I'm afraid you are wrong Flatboy - they got ordered from Hope and the order simply asked for the words required...I gave them the words and they made the rotors - I'm assuming as it was Hope that made them, they know the way to mount them and therefore cut them accordingly.

They were used on some very early Hope DH4 Pros...

hope stopped making them rotors dick due to the letters creating stress raisers and them cracking , catastrophically in some cases , mind a guys sintesi bazooka 01/02 model being able to fit a car tire in the rear end when his rotor snapped at the writing and jamming in the caliper.

hum, you are right flatboy, thats a very odd rotor, looks like one edge is leading, then looks like the other is.

i submit to your glory (boo)

rotor arms wouldnt compress, but they might sheer if you went against the grain?

good good - i was more worried that my spacial awareness had gone totally out of the window!

trail rat, that's weird that that's how they were made because i didn't think any manufacturer made them like that, they're normally the other way round. weird one.