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What makes rotors/pads more likely to get contaminated/glazed when switching wheels on a bike? Genuine question! Is it because if one or the other gets fucked up, it'll write off the other set when you switch as well?
ltc-
The reason I swap rotors as well as the wheels now is because I found the brakes needed I bit of bedding in again each time you swapped. My guess is the pads and rotors don’t wear evenly and they get ridges which can fill with contaminants?
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Only an idiot would put a different set of wheels into a bike that's got crap, pulsing or squealing brakes though.
If you're fussy, you could simply swap the pads when you swap the wheels (I have to do this with my TT bike because my training wheels are alu and race wheels carbon and that's way more of a pain than swapping disc pads)
I don't bother though. As I've said, I've had no issues with swapping on the fly and until someone tests this stuff on a test rig and measures the impact, I'm not buying this accelerated wear chatter (pun intended).
Chaley
hippy
In other word, you can afford to have new pads/rotors if they get contaminated/worn/glazed basically.