niche front rotors Q?

[Don R]

Has anyone tried the Niche front replacement brake rotors? I'm sure they are made in China but my 81 GS1100e has a pulse when stopping, at least one rotor is warped, no one around here is interested in trying to turn them. The Ebay ad shows them fitting a wide variety of models and years, and that makes me a little suspicious. NICHE Front Rear Brake Rotor Set For Suzuki GN250 GS400 GS425 GS650M GS550M | eBay

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Niche was one of the brands that recently came up when looking for economical replacement pads for my Tiger. I bought both front and rear sets. Neither set has the typical groove that lets you easily see wear depth remaining, so I only used the rears because I needed them to pass inspection. When my fronts are ready to go, I'll probably use them. They seem like decent quality. Would really like to have that wear groove though. I know you asked about rotors. Sorry I only wrote about my experience with the pads to say that the quality seems OK.

$148 for the pair seems cheap enough, but I wonder if you've priced any Japanese made rotors from a reputable dealer like Partzilla.
Never mind. A lookup or the left rotor 59221-45250 and right rotor 59211-45250 (there must be some difference) showed NA at partshark and partzilla.

Take your chances with the new Niche's or take your chances w/ a used OEM set found on ebay, which may be no better that the ones you've got. and all those will be 43 years old too.

[rphillips]

A thought, I had no luck at getting parts stores to turn bike rotors. Tried a local machine shop and they fixed me right up. It's been several yrs. don't remember cost, but for sure was reasonable or I wouldn't have used them

[Big T]

Bike rotors don't get turned
They get surface ground

[Don R]

A previous owner was an extreme over-tightener. I'm guessing he put the rotors in a bind, I'm hoping he didn't also hurt the hub.

[LAB3]

Over on the Yamaha XS1100 forum there seems to be a mixed bag of comments on Niche rotors. Some people are happy with them and some have had problems with them showing up warped. In either case the thickness of the new rotors requires some bit of modification to the pads to make them fit.

https://xs11.club/forum/idle-talk-forum/xs11-xj11-discussion/881544-niche-brake-rotors

[salty_monk]

I'd switch to CBR rotors & fit the twinpot brakes before I'd pay $150 for those.... You could have much better braking as well then.

[Don R]

I'm a big fan of big brakes, I did a 32mm V65 dual piston swap on my 78 Goldwing gl1000. I spent an hour or so finding rotors and calipers but after reading up on it, I have the 1981 GS1100e leading axle forks so the kit brackets don't fit. If I have to do a fork swap I'll go all in on one that already has the big brakes.

[salty_monk]

Yeah that’s right. It probably wouldn’t take much to knock some up though.. it’s been done by a handful of people but none have stuck around to show their final results… I do have a picture of a basically finished set. I never had an L to play with and the demand wasn’t there to make them cheap enough for the crowd here (you need to buy a bunch of sets to get reasonable pricing).

[Don R]

After a long ride two weeks ago with the warped rotors I just ordered a pair of Niche rotors. I got the Suzuki part number from partzilla, searched it and ordered what I could find. I've noticed in the old motorcycle parts world a lot of supply sources are drying up so I rolled the dice on a set. Buy it when you find it. I waited on quite a few items for a big bore 750 Honda motor I wanted to build and now that I'm ready to build it the supply has dried up.
I'll report how true they turn out to be, I'll check with a dial indicator before torquing them down, the PO of this bike was an extreme over-tightener, and I am concerned whether the hubs are still true. I'll check them also.

[dorkburger]

A member here used these guys a number of years ago to save his existing rotors. The work looked good. Looks like they are still in business, and GS content on their page...

https://truedisk.net/