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Old 06-26-22, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by tomato coupe
What is "rotor-zing"?
When rotors expand and warp after hard braking, and lightly scrape the brake calipers even after the brake levers are released, causing a metallic zing.

The new brake calipers that come with the Shimano 12 speed groupsets allegedly have more pads to rotor clearance to avoid this phenomenon.
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