Disc brake fooling me
08-25-06, 02:58 AM
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Disc brake fooling me
Hi,
I installed a 180 mm Magura Louise FR on my Santa Cruz Blur. The fork is a Fox Vanilla 125, that I think that is pretty stiff to bear this rotor diameter. Since then, there is a strange rubbering, specially when going slow, it sounds as if the top of the rotor waves hit the caliper, what is not noticeable when stopped. I posted to Magura and they say that I need to bed the pads by getting them very hot at the begginning.
It sounds to me as a sort of fork flexing that makes the rotor hit on the caliper or the caliper on the spokes. I also think that the distance between the fork and the caliper cannot change though the fork could flex so the rotor cannot hit the caliper, correct? I am quite in a mess. My main hesitation is if a 180 mm rotor can make the Fox Vanilla flex.
Regards.
I installed a 180 mm Magura Louise FR on my Santa Cruz Blur. The fork is a Fox Vanilla 125, that I think that is pretty stiff to bear this rotor diameter. Since then, there is a strange rubbering, specially when going slow, it sounds as if the top of the rotor waves hit the caliper, what is not noticeable when stopped. I posted to Magura and they say that I need to bed the pads by getting them very hot at the begginning.
It sounds to me as a sort of fork flexing that makes the rotor hit on the caliper or the caliper on the spokes. I also think that the distance between the fork and the caliper cannot change though the fork could flex so the rotor cannot hit the caliper, correct? I am quite in a mess. My main hesitation is if a 180 mm rotor can make the Fox Vanilla flex.
Regards.
