Originally Posted by
NuMexJoe
Do floating rotors decrease brake noise? Shimano Zee calipers, fwiw. I put a new-to-me wheelset on the Smash and since my old rotors were at 1.5mm (yikes!), I ordered some no-name stainless rotors from AMZ that had good reviews, and got a set of MTX Gold for the front despite shop guy at Absolute warning me they'd be noisy, since I'd heard they were the sh!t. Got them bedded in properly, and now when they get a bit of heat into them, the front howls. Seems like a floating rotor would change the vibration frequency and thus the noise, but I thought I'd ask here first. I'd sure like to keep the MTX Gold pads, as the power is as advertised, but damn they are loud!