I have liked Wavy discs ever since I had one fitted to my WR400. I can't say it made the bike stop any better, but it did have that cosmetic look and certainly enhanced a supermoto.

When it comes to sports bikes, Kawasaki started to fit the 'Petal' disc to the ZX10R back in 2004 but it wasn't what I would have called Wavy. Anyway, I've been looking for a set of wavy front discs for my Blade for some time now on E-Bay and have always been outbid, mainly because I refuse to pay the sort of money the likes of Galfer and Braking etc. ask for their discs, it just doesn't seem value for money to me, and seeing as E-bay stuff was all 2nd hand you'd expect to pay a lot less. But oh no, people were still prepared to pay well over 200 quid for 'used' ones.

Therefore I had admitted defeat and resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn't buy any. Until, that is, I saw another ad on E-Bay Motors, this time for a set of 2 front and one rear wavy discs for 99 quid??!! As always there is a catch, these discs come from China. But the 99 quid for 3 seemed value for money nonetheless. I perused their site and had a good old look at the specs and I couldn't see where I could go wrong, except that perhaps one day I may not stop; but the structure, materials, machining etc. that goes into these looked good enough for 99 of anyone's pounds.

Whilst bearing in mind that my current Golf Clubs are Taylormades and they come from China, well the factory next to the Taylormade Factory, obviously being Jekylls, I thought why not, those clubs are excellent and a fraction of the price. So, admittedly, with a certain amount of trepidation I took the plunge and bought some. They turned up in the next 5-7 working days (as advertised), and were even delivered through TNT. I opened them and quite expected the holes not to line up or something obvious that you would notice with a copy of an original, but what are these copies of exactly? They are not advertised as copies of Galfer or Braking items, they are their own, but a less expensive option made by a company called Villamotor.

I aligned them to the stock discs of mine that were off the bike anyway and I couldn't fault them, all the holes lined up, the offset of the carrier was perfect, the leading edges of the discs were machine hardened, (I don't know the technical engineering name for it), in black. Both the front discs weighed exactly the same as each other and exactly 162 grammes (each) lighter than the originals, and that's after 3 years of wear on the OEs.

Needless to say they are now on and have been bedded in with new pads. At first they seemed completely rubbish as all new disc and brake combinations do, but after putting 30 miles on them they feel as good as the originals. But I think they look better and they should equate to a gyroscopic saving of 324 grammes, so less unsprung weight too. Multiply that lot by 4 to allow for some mathematical mysteries and I have lost approximately 1.2 kilos of unsprung rolling mass and should have improved the steering reaction in the deal too, i.e. quickened it.

I haven't tried the rear one yet, that is on my spare rear wheel, but I guess this isn't quite as important as the front ones, they will be taking all the stress and have quite a tough job ahead of them.

If I find these things start to warp when used in anger I will of course ensure there is a message on this site to ensure people are aware and advise you not to do the same as me.

You have to realise that we do not do this site as a guide of what one should do, we do it purely for fun and to tell anyone that is interested of our exploits and what we think, and what we try etc. I could be completely insane for doing what I have done with these brake discs, but you will find out. If an update is required, hopefully it will be written by me, if it's written by the Ed, then you know what's happened to me and my wavy discs from China ...