Made in China- Wave Rotors

[Tiger Racing]

The fact of the matter is that CHINA products make up almost half of the products EVERY American has or uses on a daily basis. Most MAJOR companies use china for out sourcing parts that are used to make up a "MADE in USA" product and the sad thing is that you will never know.
I know for a fact that Buell wheels are made in china and that is supposed to be American!
And because this is a hayabusa site I choose not to say BUT I can tell you for a FACT that the older gsxr wheels are made in that same chinese factory where the buell wheels are made.

So are you not going to ride them anymore...NOT! I can also say from being directly involved with this factory I have never seen a company so advanced in facilities, testing development and so on. Bottom line is they build great products, but on the other hand economically and politically things may not be so right. So sad. America has issues, and we all need to stand together and fix them!

 

[Aquaman]

Just about everything I have ever bought that had the famous "MADE IN CHINA" on it fell apart.
And lets not forget about the LEAD paint they are still using on little kiddies toys!

they make good chiken wings.......

 

[Dobieman]

The problem with China is that their govt doesn't regulate industry and all kinds of substandard practices are used with disregard to outcome other than profit. Poison pet food to make the protein test look good, no problem. Poison our children with lead painted toys to make an extra buck, why not. If they have this kind of disregard for human and animal life why support it and risk your own in the process? The reason things are cheap is because the people making them are paid almost nothing, used up and discarded, repeat.
Hey I like a deal and you cant help but buy Chinese stuff anymore - don't kid yourself otherwise.
But knowingly doing it to save a buck on a high performance part critical to safe operation of a motor vehicle isn't an option for me. I wouldn't drink from a coffee cup made in China these days and I am going to trust them to haul me down from triple digits  

 

[TIMMYDUCK]

I just think that it is amazing what they can do with the recycled junk metal they buy from us.

I believe that those are made from 50% beached merchant marine ships from Indonesia and 50% recycled diet coke cans.

 

[tinmann840]

Actually my rotors are imported..."Braking" rotors are made in Italy...I don't care if they are $10 or $1000 a pair...what I do care about is Italian steel (read Western European), Italian engineers, Italian craftsmen, Italian businessmen, the latter who have distinguished themselves in the global mercantile world as PEOPLE WHO CARE about what they produce(over the past 100 years, BTW). I bet the employees of "Braking" ride their personal motorcycles home at night that have "Braking" rotors on them. I doubt if that happens in Bejing. Raydog

so where would one find these rotors? The name is a total disaster for a search engine to find... "Braking Rotors" only generates about 4M hits

A link would be most helpful... I see Brembo is Italian as well... go figure

Where else .....Ebay. I saw them a couple of years ago when I was looking for wave rotors. Sounded too good to be true and I opted for something with a proven track record. Braking Wave rotors. Of course the rotors showed the day my bike was stolen and I ended up selling them to Nosjunkie,but I'm quite sure they were better than those Chinese made rotors.

 

[Aquaman]

But knowingly doing it to save a buck on a high performance part critical to safe operation of a motor vehicle isn't an option for me. I wouldn't drink from a coffee cup made in China these days and I am going to trust them to haul me down from triple digits  

Amen to that brother
Not for something that my life depends on!

 

[JusPlaynBob]

Justplaynbob, actually, thanks for starting this idea, strands like this help us to be educated consumers in the world of motorcycles!           Raydog

It's is debate like this that will help all of us make informed decisions and
maybe save a life or two.

Thanks
-Bob

 

[Smoke_Dog]

 

[Tiger Racing]

Just a hint of what one china co. does. If you look close enough you can see wheels from the honda rs pure road racing bike and many others. Oh and by the way if you own a toyota with a 4cyl engine, there is a 50% chance it came this same co.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the new contract with bmw for some of their automobile wheels. The list goes on for a very long time.

The point of this is that this co., and it's just one of them has the technology, resources, man power etc. to do just about anything EXCEPT think for themselves on development and making a good product. If you demand a certain material, tolerance, manufacturing process, they can build it better and cheaper! Period! And yes at the cost of the environment people and there health etc..But hey they dont care about now they look to generations later when they picture to run everything! (and they are not that far away from it)

Please for the sake of this country try not to be so closed minded.

Anyway getting back to the rotors, if you don't know who designed them or what they've been tested for...I suggest you find out or send me what info you have and I'll find out for you.

 

[BusaWizard]

 

[K Wolf]

And yes at the cost of the environment people and there health etc..But hey they dont care about now they look to generations later when they picture to run everything! (and they are not that far away from it)

Please for the sake of this country try not to be so closed minded.

For the sake of which country am I supposed to not be so closed minded?

Karl

 

[S-R Racing]

Hey Bob,
These are machined in CA. by MVP Rotors. The rear is $105 outright($85.00 exchange), Fronts are $400.00($300.00 exchange). I've had no troubles at all, weight is less than half on rear and a third less on the front. He has a regular listing on ebay,if he's not backed up, ships within 2-3 days
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[S-R Racing]

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[ibified]

those are nice. price is right too!

 

[MO-BUSA]

i work for a large engineering firm, we dont spec-out chinese valves for fear of metal fatigue, if i cant trust them to make a $5,000 dollar valve i sure am not trusting them to make a $150 brake rotor....nuff said...

 

[shortBoarder]

Just a hint of what one china co. does. If you look close enough you can see wheels from the honda rs pure road racing bike and many others. Oh and by the way if you own a toyota with a 4cyl engine, there is a 50% chance it came this same co.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the new contract with bmw for some of their automobile wheels. The list goes on for a very long time.

The big difference: these are products engineered by large corporations (Honda, etc.) that need to meet spec or else. If they don't, the client kills the contract and the factory loses a lot of $$. If a defective product somehow makes it to the finished product, the client faces recalls, lawsuits, etc., and a whole bank of lawyers get involved. Maybe the owner of the factory ends up in a Chinese jail.

If the cheap Chinese brake rotor you bought off of Ebay doesn't work, who do you sue as an individual? Can you afford to? The seller has very little to lose, and you potentially take on a lot of risk.

Not everything China makes is inferior, but I'd never buy anything that I need to trust my well-being to from a non-reputable and hard-to-trace source. If the rotors were from some guy in Ohio that I've never heard of and can't find any reputable information on, it would be the same story.

 

[2wheeler]

I would like to see a post from all the pseudo patriots that have posted about China's politics that have not one Chineese product in their hoome or car. Who's first?

 

[Mr Bogus]

Yea you just gotta get past the politics... look at the reality and then put the bike in first gear, dump the throttle and forget about all the drama

 

[Wag]

I would like to see a post from all the pseudo patriots that have posted about China's politics that have not one Chineese product in their hoome or car. Who's first?

I have a few leftovers that I know about. I check labels and I'm not adding any new things as of a few years ago.

--Wag--

P.S. No need to insult people with the "pseudo patriot" crap. Keep it civil, bro.

 

[shortBoarder]

I would like to see a post from all the pseudo patriots that have posted about China's politics that have not one Chineese product in their hoome or car. Who's first?

I generally avoid it, at least when I can tell where a product is from. It's practically impossible to tell where all the internal components / ingredients of a product come from anymore. We all have stuff from China in our houses and garages whether we like it or not.