Hey Fellas, my Fatbob when its off and im moving it around I can hear a swish from the front brakes. Its the pads on the rotors touching im guessing, just want to no if thats normal or do i need to get the rotors machined or what? Do you machine them on bikes?

Cheers

 

As far as I know, and this is general advice only, the disk will always kiss the pads. There's no spring to pull the pads off the disk when pressure is released, the system relies on the disk to 'push' the pads back off the disk, so they will always just touch in some places....nothings perfect....

In extremes. it might mean the disk is warped, but if the brakes work OK, and there's no vibration when pulled on, then it's probably all OK.

Sounds like your pipe in not loud enough.

Cheers Colstah

Either that or wheel bearings.