Front Rotors

RCinNC

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96,000 miles....original rotors still.

Edit: well, that's on the front. I'm on my third rear rotor.
 

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Interesting, I may have warped mine already. It maybe how I ride cause I warped my GS front rotors and had to replace a couple times. Never replaced a rear though, not yet anyhow.
 

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Engine braking is your friend. :cool: I just replaced my rear pads at 23,500. It's hard to tell how much further I could have gone, but I was happy with that mileage considering how low some of the members here are replacing theirs at. Fronts might be a little less than half. Once again, it's hard to tell how much further they'll last.
 

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I’ve never changed a set. Never even seen any “close”. Wear like iron.

On the other hand, the rear disc wears like butter
 

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I haven't looked at them but are the T10 rotors floating? Doesn't say on the website.

After coming in hot to a standing stop, don't sit there with the brakes on, rotate the wheel a little keeps the rotors from developing hot spots.
 

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I changed one of my front rotors when the bike was fairly new. The front rotors are showing quite a bit of wear now. The bike has 100,000 on it. It still has the original rear rotor but it is complete trash. Planning on changing it at the next tire change. My original rotors had some sort of issue with friction coefficient. It felt exactly like a warped rotor. Every rotation there were spots on the rotor that the brakes would grab hard then other spots they would not hold strong. I changed the worst rotor and things got a lot better. If the rotors got wet it would do the same thing again but not very bad as it was with the original rotor on there. When it did that I would put the bike in second gear apply lots of front brake and ride to heat the front rotors then let them cool and repeat three or four times. Sort of like seating and breaking in a new rotor and pads. that would take care of the warped rotor feel till the next time they got wet. After there was several thousand miles on them and they were showing some wear I have never had that issue again.
 

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I changed mine at 26k as they had gone out of spec at 4mm. The OEM Galfers are floating but the bobbins do need cleaning and freeing off periodically. I replaced mine with PFM disk which are parallel ground and do not warp. They are true floating disks and the rotors can be replaced without changing the entire disk


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Well this is disappointing, OE rotors back ordered right from Japan and we wont see them till late June or early July.
My start date for is June 23rd for the north.
AND $400 a pop for the rotors, this will be over $1000 for rotors and pads.o_Oo_O
Is there are BMW connection with the S10, cause it feels like my GS days are back.
 
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. . . . Is there are BMW connection with the S10, cause it feels like my GS days are back.
The brakes were one of the good things on the RT I rode. Replaced the front pads at 28k mi just because. The rear pads were replaced every 10k mi. And that bike was ridden like a rented mule. With 60K miles on the bike, both front/rear rotors were still fine. Once again, only used OE pads. The only braking issues I've ever had was the ST1300 when a set of EBCs got put on, and on my truck when I put some semi-metallics on it. I will never deviate from OE on pads again.
 

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Well this is disappointing, OE rotors back ordered right from Japan and we wont see them till late June or early July.
My start date for is June 23rd for the north.
AND $400 a pop for the rotors, this will be over $1000 for rotors and pads.o_Oo_O
Is there are BMW connection with the S10, cause it feels like my GS days are back.
Aftermarket? EBC, PFM, Galfer, etc. might be able to get them sooner and perhaps cheaper than OEM.


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I'd definitely be investigating aftermarket alternatives if I couldn't get OEM rotors until late June/early July, especially if I had a launch date of June 23rd. EBC and Galfer are top notch products. My personal experience was that EBC pads seemed really hard on OEM rotors, at least on the rear, and I wouldn't be inclined to mix them again, but I don't think that's a universal experience.
 

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My 2015 had a warped front rotor around 35k miles. I recall other 2015 owners reporting the same. None of my 3 other Super Teneres ever had that issue.

I've owned a lot of bikes over the years. My '15 Super Tenere was the only one that I've ever had that warped.
 
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