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Muc Off Disc Brake Covers.jpgMuc-Off launch a disc brake cover
If you tend to fling lube all over the place when you're giving your bike some TLC or are worried about disc brakes getting damaged in transit, Muc-Off have just the thing for you... a neoprene disc brake cover that wraps around the rotors with Velcro to keep 'em safe and sound.
With more of us switching to disc brakes, it's common knowledge that pads and rotors don't really mix with lubricants or protective sprays, so Muc-Off went about creating a solution. They fit any size of disc brake on any type of bike, and Muc-Off say they will help your brakes to "maintain power and maximum performance". To attach them, you put the base plate (the back of it) over the hub axle by pulling it apart at the join and pushing it round, then starting at the caliper, apply the neoprene cover over the top. We found it fitted more neatly around the front brake, with the chainstay getting in the way a bit at the rear.
We found an alternative use...
After using you can simply rinse both parts of the cover with water, and Muc-Off helpfully remind us not to ride with them attached. A set of two will cost you £22.50, and they're available to buy on Muc-Off's website now...
Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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- hawkinspeter 54 min 38 sec ago
My favourite scary clown is Twisty from American Horror Story: Freak show
- john_smith 1 hour 4 min ago
Once you're properly wet the spray from other road users is a non-problem. The worst part is cleaning your stuff afterwards!
- john_smith 1 hour 20 min ago
Those Lore One/Two shoes look like a good application of the technology. It's just a shame they're so ugly and expensive. And of course there is...
- Steve K 3 hours 20 min ago
Not specific to this rack, but personally I think one of these is a better solution than p clips - https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m5b0s215p3695/SPA...
- Steve K 3 hours 24 min ago
Is it just me, or have your review markings got a bit harsher recently? This feels like one of a number of reviews which recently which have got a...
- Miller 3 hours 24 min ago
To be fair the gravel world's course would have been a mudfest had it rained. As it was, Paris Tours presented a comical contrast.
- brooksby 4 hours 10 min ago
Don't you be comin' on 'ere with yer "common sense"!
- OnYerBike 5 hours 18 min ago
I would have said Halfords are OK, if they stock the specific thing you want. Prices tend to be reasonable, and don't need to spend a fortune to...
- OnYerBike 5 hours 32 min ago
FWIW, as I understand it Scots Law has some slightly different rules around "corroboration" of evidence, which does complicate matters when...
- peted76 6 hours 21 min ago
An absolute epic ride. I've been blown away by this feat of human endurance. Chapeau indeed!
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I can imagine R&D department trying to keep straight face when pitching this "revolutionary" product to their superiors
I just wish they'd make some of these that can go over your tyres - I'm forever cleaning bits of mud etc. from my tyres.
They're Fugly - is it April already......
I had to check the date on this one, thought I'd missed Hallowe'en, Chrimbo and New Year and gone straight to All Fools Day.
If you're daft enough to use any kind of spray lube on your bike, you're probably daft enough to buy these.
Do go on.
Does it come in any other colours?
"Muc-Off launch a disc brake cover"
Yeah i reckon i'd launch it too.
So did we, turns out it actually makes a half-decent frisbee too...
Why didn't I think of this. This is brilliant just brilliant hopefully. They'll make one for when I wash my car too
I think I can safely say that this is one product I will never buy.
Is this some sort of odd joke? This is why mountain bikers laugh at us roadies.
I have discs on my road bike, the only disc that needs protecting during transportation is the front one when I take the wheel off - that's what a bit of foam is for...
As for cleaning, yeah, occasionally I throw a clean rag over the discs when I'm spraying stuff over my bike.
WTF? Surely if mountain bikers have lasted this long cleaning the filth they get every time they ride road cyclists don’t need to go pissing £22 away on a bit of cloth?