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Melvin Amey
I have a question regarding the installation of a Acerbis X Brake Disc Cover on the front end of a 2022 WR450F. The question is will the spacer/disc cover bracket impede or interfere with the stock speedometer pickup sensing the wheel? Any info would be greatly appreciated.
I attempted to run the Acerbis disc guard on my 19 and ran into similar problems, couldn't remember if it impeded with the speedo or just didn't fit right, I want to say there spacer/guard mount was binding up the wheel.
I returned it and picked up the Polisport disc guard, it too wasn't a perfect fit and required some fettling to make it work, but its much better then nothing guarding the rotor, and it doesn't interfere with the speedo or wheel spacers, just bolts onto the outside hub like the old YZ/WRs did in the 90s. Also comes with a nice bottom guard for the other fork too, I'll take anything I can get to protect the bike out here in the desert.
Designed to protect your discs from overspray of protectant and lube, the Disc Brake Covers will shield your brakes from contaminants and prevent against loss of braking power often caused by overspray.
I recently did a bit of aerodynamic testing between the rear disc wheel I currenty use, and a Swisside Hadron classic 800, with an EZDisc cover on it (basically solid cover you attach over the spokes, effectively making it into a disc wheel).
I have a RING floodlight cam pro. The camera and lights work fine - and the image is great but over the last few days the disc of glass/plastic keeps coming loose which means I dont get a clear image as the disc creates a problem.
Wife came home the other day and said there was a noise when she turned left in the 2014 Chrsyler T&C Minivan. I drove it around a parking lot and confirmed a scraping/metallic rubbing sound from rear wheel (I thought left, she thought right) when turning fairly tight left turns about 10-15 mph. Didn't sound clicky or robust enough to be the wheel bearing. Sounded to me like the brake dust cover rubbing, since I had one bust loose on a truck one time, and this was really similar.
However, I'm wondering if this is just the first symptom of a bad wheel bearing. If I understand how the stuff is put together down there, the dust cover is attached to an assembly that's independent of the wheel and rotor, so that the shifting of mass during turns may be angling that wheel enough to cause that rub.
Your understanding of how it's connected together makes sense, however, if you are rubbing a brake dust cover (backing plate) it doesn't mean the bearing is going bad. The first thing I'd be looking at is if there is any damage to the dust cover or if there is something stuck between the dust cover and the rotor.
It's unlikely to be a wheel bearing. If the wheel bearing is so worn that the wheel is cocking enough to rub on the disc brake shield, you'd have started hearing it months ago. What I think is more likely is your shield probably got hit by either a rock or some snow and got bent. You bent it back, problem solved. When wheel bearings go, they start as kind of a low moan and if you let them go long enough it sounds like a helicopter chasing you.
Have you replaced the rear discs recently?I had a problem that drove me crazy for a while with my 2007 T&C. I do all my own work, and buy OEM parts when I can, but not usually dealer parts. I'm no beginner with cars or parts and I know for sure I have ordered the correct rear discs for that car twice and both times they rubbed on the dust shields. Barely, just enough to drive me crazy trying to figure it out. Not enough to rub all the time or even put a noticeable mark on the dust shield. Just enough to piss me off.
It would never do it when I had the car up in the air, only on corners while driving. I eventually figured out that the discs were somehow different. Larger, but only by a fraction of an inch. Two different brands, same problem.
After having had to push the cover aside again, and the noise came back, my mechanic took a look and told use the rotors were just very rusty outside the areas where they are constantly scrubbed by the pads. The growing rust barnacles were contacting the cover. New rotors solved the issue.
Is anyone out there using disc wheel covers? I can't afford, nor justify the cost of a full on disc wheel, but I could justify the cost of a cover. If so, what ones do you recommend? I'm not interested in making my own, so happy to buy pre-cut. I've seen 2 on the internet. A Vitesse cover on ebay, and a company called EZ-Disc. The pre-cut Vitesse covers are around 50-60 depending on what finish you buy. The EZ-Disc is about 135, and has a slightly different fastening system. Has anyone used either?
i ran raltech covers for a couple of years and found them fantastic, make sure they fit your frame, had a 30mm carbon rim tub wheel with covers very light and fast definitely quicker than an old heavy disc, cheers
Thanks for the input guys. I opted for the EZ-Disc in the end. The chap who developed them was really responsive on Facebook, and they just have a nicer finish and look compared to the Vitesse covers. They will hopefully have their first outing at the Castle Combe 25 mile TT in January.
Rivers, will be interested to see how you get on with it as I decided earlier in the year that I'd probably buy an EZ-disc as the last component for a recent TT bike build. The owner/developer works, I believe, for a plastics manufacturer locally so have expected good quality as I think he uses his workplace's moulds and was hoping to see the product in the flesh before buying if it had not been for the pandemic.
Pretty easy to fit, took me about 15-20 minutes. I used a few pieces of electrical tape on the spokes to hold it in place while I fit the cable ties. That was probably the most fiddly bit. Very sturdy, weight isn't too bad, 4-500 grams. The cover sits nicely in the ridge of my wheels.
My ezdisc arrived earlier this week and I put them on today. Fairly easy to fit and pleased withheld result. Fit very well, seem sturdy and no rubbing on chain etc. Obviously not tested them properly in race etc. yet but positive initial impression.
Scratches on the label side of CDs can be a more serious problem. Because the reflective metal layer and data layer are so close to the surface of the label side of the disc, they can be damaged very easily. A slight indentation, or pinhole in the metal from a scratch, pen, pencil, ultrafine marker, or other sharp object will destroy the reflectivity of the metal in that area on the other side (laser reading side) and the readability of the data by the laser. This type of damage cannot be repaired.
The reflective metal layer is inside the plastic disc, it has nothing to do with the printed label. What they refer to in the link is that on CD's, this metal layer is close to the surface on the label side of the disc, so that this layer (inside the disc) can get damaged if the label side is scratched. It also says that the print on a CD with a printed layer can act as an extra protection against scratches. If you continue reading, you'll see that they say that in DVD's, this reflective layer lies much deeper in the plastic, so it's difficult to have it damaged by scratching the top side.
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This is a simple, straight forward product designed to keep road grime, and in my case diesel soot, off your rotors and pads. The Muc-Off Disc Brake Covers are made from a breathable neoprene and ship as a pair for $29.99. The covers work on all disc brake bikes, no matter the rotor size. I use 223mm TRP rotors front and back and have not had an issue getting these on.
Disc wheels are something of an "all-in" product. Once you've got a disc, you know you're quite serious about this whole triathlon thing. Discs are invariably the fastest wheels around, period. But they do come with a couple inconveniences that other wheels don't offer. The biggest of these is, of course, inflation. I've written entire articles on which pump heads work better with discs. Perhaps equally large an inconvenience is their price tag; discs don't come cheap. Top-end discs will cost you north of $2,000, and even budget discs will usually cost $800 or more. There's long been a popular alternative to the true disc, and it's what's known as the disc cover: a sheet of plastic or composite material that attaches to a standard spoked wheel, essentially creating a disc out of a non-disc.
That's what we're looking at today, specifically the Catalyst wheel cover. At $299, this is still one of the more expensive covers out there (Wheelbuilder.com covers can be had for about $100), but there were a few reasons I wanted to check out the Catalyst. I've owned Wheelbuilder covers before, and wasn't too impressed with the quality. The cover would warp, bulging in the wrong spots and rubbing my derailleur. The Wheelbuilder covers also use screws to hold the cover to your wheel (two sets of plastic screws essentially clamshell the two halves of the cover together). The Catalyst uses a simpler, but perhaps more elegant solution: electrical tape. And rather than regular plastic sheeting, Catalyst uses sheets of 3k carbon fiber for their covers. This doesn't really make them any stiffer, or more aero, but they're definitely pretty. I added my cover to a Flo 90 wheel, which was a good choice because the Flo fairing also uses a 3k weave, so the appearance was a nice match.
Installation is very simple and straightforward: you take off your cassette, add the cover, tape it down on each side, and reinstall the cassette. Done! Some real care is needed, however; if you're not careful, you can easily get the same bulges that screw-type covers are known for, and end up with derailleur rub. But as long as you go slowly, ensure even tension in your tape application, and keep a weather eye for asymmetry in your installation, you'll be fine. The result is a wheel every bit as aero as a true disc, and easily convertible back into your old wheel if/when desired. The converted disc will ride pretty much exactly like your old wheel, and just make you a little more aero in the process. I prefer a tape-down cover over the versions with screw-down sides, as the tape doesn't add more frontal area like the screws do.
There are a couple little bits that aren't quite ideal, however. First off is the construction; Catalyst is using a very thin layup for these covers, I'm guessing just 1 or 2 ply. This makes the cover very flexible, not rigid or stiff in the slightest, and that can make it tough to get a perfectly symmetrical installation done. I still got some slight bulging, despite my best efforts to make it perfect. The other thing about thin ply is that it's too easy to damage when taking off a pump head. As you can see on my cover, there's been a bet of wreckage there.
But for me, the toughest sell is the price. At $300, you're halfway to buying a dedicated Flo Disc. And if you just want to experiment with a disc cover, the Wheelbuilder ones are much cheaper. But it's undeniable that the carbon weave here is pretty, and there will certainly be customers who find that premium worth the price. Probably the prototypical customer here is someone who has a set of nice Zipp hoops (or other premium brand), and wants to keep their premium set on the bike while upgrading to a slightly faster rear. For these people, the Catalyst looks like a very nice option indeed. It completes the disc with an understated and attractive aesthetic, while still costing only a small fraction of what an actual Zipp (or other brand) disc does.