Just to drag things out even longer (I hope H you have just bought yourself some nice 6 bolt hubs since this morn)
I agree with WCP, hub choice comes first… choosing a rotor style first is putting the apple before the donkey cart.
IF i had a rear centrelock wheel built up that i was happy with and the front was available, i would match it, for sure… cos matchy is important.
I want H to come out and tell us exactly when/what thought/article/who’s opnion made him take this ridiculous stand on centrelock.
And WCP, i wasnt trying to stamp authority, I re-read my post and it reads that way a bit to me… I was trying to reassure that I aint being argumentative in a trollful way, since you and I are unknown to eachother in the real world
-I’m a big fan of Shimano hubs, so CL is kinda a given
-I know I’m harping on about ‘the move within the industry’, but if you look at any new disc road wheel coming out, the great majority are offering a CL interface.
-I think it is a more elegant engineering solution
-Customers are asking for it, rightly or wrongly, CL is seen a ‘superior’ to 6-bolt.
-It doesn’t actually require any new tools than the ones you already have.
-If CL was so shit, why is WI (of all people) offering them?
-As AL9000 mentioned, it is backwards compatible
WI also brought us splined track cogs in an aluminium material way, nuff said
I know this adds absolutely nothing to the disccussion (disc cussion geddit?) but i have actually seen H shirtless IRL and i haven’t been the same since
I sort of agree with most of that, mostly i dont HATE CL, I think its an elegant interface too, but at the moment it is ruining your wheel build options and for that i dislike it. I’d like to see you wait another couple of years, perhaps one set of wheels, til making the switch, and then if CL is everywhere, I will happily make the switch with you.
Freeza… had never heard of em. Looks like the lettuce chopper on the old mcdonalds big mac ads. Sure seems like some people struggle with heat dissipation in XC… I’m not one of them. (but like the look of icetech rotors and finned pads so they stay)If they make some light rotors with that nice alloy spider and no wavey beard on the rotor I’d take a set. in 6 bolt. for now.
I have seen plenty of loose CL rotors chewing out the aluminium interface on which they rely. Once they’re fucked, they need mucho leverage to get them to sit still. This leads me to believe that the lockring is then responsible for holding the rotor in place rather than the spline. Loads of vibrations while braking are sure to then loosen that lockring as there is a now a little bit of play in the spline which allows it to move slightly backwards and forwards.
I have never seen a 6 bolt rotor loose. Ever. Sure I’ve discovered individual loose bolts, but there are 6 of them. I have seen several others drop to 3 bolts (weight) without any ill effects. You are eliminating that handy bit of built in redundancy though.
Also, while the inability to remove a CL rotor without workshop tools might seem like just a consideration for touring it still applies when you badly bend a rotor while out on the trails. Worst case with 6 bolt, someone will have a T25 on a multitool, take the bent rotor off and ride home. Worst case with CL, walk.
Funnily enough, I occasionally have the exact opposite problem oratiohhhhhh, I limit my hub choices to 6 bolt.
Our early Assault SLG Disc test set comes with 6-bolt disc brake hubs, but as Rob Aguero, Director of Sales & Marketing at Reynolds Cycling, told us, Centerlock will be the company’s preferred rotor mount going forward.
The new wheels update the disc brake rotor interface to the increasingly popular Centerlock interface. Centerlock can be slightly lighter than six-bolt equivalents, and in the rare case that you have a pit mechanic cleaning and maintaining your bikes on race day and destroy rotors on the ’cross course, you may prefer the 2015 wheelsets. With the correct tools, Centerlock rotors are faster to replace, and could offer better alignment (although to take advantage of the wide variety of six bolt rotors out there, you will also need an adaptor, which will more than eliminate the weight gains of the Centerlock system).
