Keep away from white spirit as this will leave an oily film.
Cleaning mountain bike rotors.
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The most important tool for cleaning rotors is isopropyl alcohol isa isopropanol or rubbing alcohol are other names for the same thing.
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Roughing up the rotor and brake pad surface with sandpaper can help quell noise.
Go ride get dirty and go back to step 2.
Always wear gloves when handling your rotors so you don t contaminate the braking surface.
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Fine wet dry sandpaper above 1000 is best.
If you clean your rotors always be prepared to perform a bedding in process.
Following this method washing my bike usually takes under 15 minutes with the lube job taking an additional 5 or so.
The first step is to place the brake pads and disk on a bed of lint free shop towels and put on some nitrile or latex gloves the kind that doctors wear.
This is to prevent any oil transfer onto the brakes.
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This is easy enough to do you can simply use a disc brake cleaner that comes in a.
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Clean lint free shop towels.
Hope told us we recommend either methylated spirits or isopropyl alcohol as these both leave no residue on the rotors.
When it comes to cleaning disc rotors the general consensus is to use a specialist product that doesn t leave any residue such as isopropyl alcohol.
Use isopropyl alcohol or disc brake cleaner to remove contaminants.
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Clean your rotors if you have accidentally sprayed something on your rotors then you ll need to give them a clean.
I buy it in a 500ml bottle and transfer it into a small dropper bottle which lives in my tool box.