Originally Posted by Hopper
I don't care whether the head of hayes said mtb's don't have their pads glaze, it can and does happen. Only a problem in the DH world, but I have seen glazed pads. Try doing 7minute fullspeed DH runs with bad technique, it is very easy to WAY overheat your pads. At thredbo mountain there have been photo's taken of people and you can see glowing rotors........
All you need to do to break in disc brakes is ride them like normal. Do some hard stops and in a couple of rides they will be at full performance. If it is real hard braking, o na DH track you could have your breaks working best after less than 10 hard braking zones.
DH is different...or anything similar. XC riders shouldn't have glazing issues.
i never said i agreed with the dude from Hayes. not saying much for their gurus over there if they didn't know that bicycle rotors get hot.