You said it yourself. Brake like you mean it. Not like your driving Ms Daisy to the shops.
This is a crappy photo before the torture truly began at Maydena, but you ca already see there is a lot of wear on the rotor from the Saints running sintered pads.
After a week or so in Derby and 1 day in Maydena back in 2018-2019, my Evil following had a 160mm rear Hope rotor, it was down at 0.75mm when I measured it when I got home.
They’re Sram centrelines - not exactly shitty rotors!
Piss taking aside, I have also had rotor(s) like you explained, can't remember the pads, there was tear marks in the steel, like something had stuck in and gouged/wiped the steel face off the rotor. I could feel it gouging with every hard brake, the rotors felt lumpy and fucked, like it was metal on metal and the pads were gone, but they weren't.
You're putting extra pressure on the high spots, you can see where the pads have started to disintegrate from the extra heat. The Grooving in the rotors from semi-metallics is fairly normal, it's less evident when you're not hard on the brakes and they're covered in dust.
It is normal, you’re just going through the first stage of grief. You’ll learn to accept your new shape eventually.I did. They’re telling me galling is normal…
umm. Ok…
The rotor is in the bin after half a dozen XC rides. I guess I just don’t have your brake budget to consider this normal…
Finally, some useful and sensible advice we can all get on board with!
Huh. They look nothing like mine. One wonders if there was a mix up a batch and someone dropped in too much metal particles!
Friday arvo brake pad special.
They're undersize already?