Wed, 6 May 1998 07:50:00 +0200 - Message No. 2856
>From: ms@mausd.gun.de (Marcel Sieling)

Subject: disc locks suck!


Hi,

[used discs]
>Yes it's difficult and one used disc costs about ~ 250,- But you only
>need ONE, if you buy the original Honda disc !

It can be difficult to dismount a used disc without damaging it. I had the
experience, that after loosing the screws it made a big "plang" and the
disc was bent, I could only throw it away.

It's worth a try, but I would always buy a set of equal ones new. And
because I did not want to pay for the genuine ones, I bought second source
discs, we'll see, how they work in a few weeks. Spiegler is well known in
the business, I trust them. But first I have to mount new bearings and
sealings in the new wheel set (bought already) and then I'll have to mount
tires in (which I get on 27th of May hopefully).

Philip_ROBERTSON@paribas.com wrote:
>It would be better to have them both the same but  I think 'asymmetric
>braking' is a bit of an exaggeration. It would be true on a car but this
>would come from slowing 2 contact points with the road at different
>rates.

That's true of course.

>How about those bikes that only have one brake disc on the front? You
>can't get much more asymmetric than that :-)

But, is that what we want? My life hangs often on these discs, I do not
want to save a few bucks on them and then risc any problems. But people can
decide, however I would not recommend to drive with two different discs.

take care - Marcello.


dipper@normans.isd.uni-stuttgart.de