|   Hey do you shimano will license the XTR rotor spline pattern | DeeEight
Nov 13, 2002 8:26 PM | | to other disc rotor manufacturers or are they gonna be their typical
selves and keep rotor production exclusive to themselves. |
| huh? | nice grammar (nm)
Nov 14, 2002 9:41 AM | | |
| re: Hey do you shimano will license the XTR rotor spline pattern | m00ch
Nov 14, 2002 6:24 PM | | Wow what a great idea make a splined rotor to cut down on weight and have a more solid interface with the hub. Once again Shimano has broken the mold.
Oh wait...several years ago Hope did the same thing but Shimano drones wouldn't go for it then.
I still have wet dreams about my ti-glide Hope hubs with splined rotor interface. |
| As it happens Mountain Cycles/ProStop did it in 1992... | DeeEight
Nov 15, 2002 1:14 AM | | predating Hope or Shimano's use of a splined rotor interface. The major advantage is much improved hub/fork clearance as there's no bolt
heads to worry about, just a nice flush fitting lockring that's barely 1mm thick. Also rotor changes would be quicker since you need only unthread one lockring, not six bolts. |
| How about the cost of the replacement rotors? | Quattro
Nov 16, 2002 12:15 PM | | It seems the Shimano rotors would be a lot more expensive to
replace than the easier to manufacture 1 piece disc. |
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