Muc-Off Disc Brake Covers protect your rotors while you scrub the bike

Written by Cory Benson Oct 22, 2018 5:30 p.m. ET

Muc-Off neoprene Disc Brake Covers for cleaning & transport

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It really isn’t that hard to keep your bike clean and running smoothly. But if you stress about keeping your rotors contamination-free while you keep your bike fresh & your bearings spinning freely, Muc-Off’s Disc Brake Covers may be the thing for you…

Muc-Off neoprene Disc Brake Covers for cleaning & transport

I pretty much subscribe to one of two methods of bike maintenance (note: please don’t follow my advice here) – either totally ignore cleaning your bike until it starts making a lot of noise, or just habitually keep it looking spotless. But if you are all about keeping your bike properly clean and properly lubed, it is important to keep those aggressive cleaners and oily lubricants away from your brake rotors and brake pads.

Muc-Off neoprene Disc Brake Covers – Tech Details

Muc-Off’s latest neoprene Disc Brake Covers will keep your brakes safely protected from the occasionally errant spray-on frame protection, cleaner, polish or lube.

The simple neoprene covers velcro tightly over your rotors, and both deflect harmful sprays while cleaning your bike or keep anything from touching the rotors directly when you travel with your bike. Plus, their bright high-contrast design will make it hard to forget them when you are about to pack or giving your bike a clean.

The $29/£22.50 Muc-Off Disc Brake Covers are sold as a pair and work with pretty much any standard road or mountain rotors – 140-203mm. They are reusable and cleanable, and also claim to protect against corrosion since they keep your rotors covers while using more aggressive cleaners and such.

A more rigid base slides behind the rotor, over the hub, and then the flexible outer cover can be pressed into place, either directly over the rotor off the bike, or even attached over the frame or fork.

The breathable neoprene Disc Brake Covers aren’t completely sealed against contamination – so don’t try to blast them with spray lube – but are rather meant to offer some additional layer of protection. Then simply rinse them off before using again – whether to protector your brakes on the bike, or your rotors in transit.

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Cory Benson

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Cory Benson is the EU Tech Editor of Bikerumor.com.

Cory has been writing about mountain bikes, enduro, cyclocross, all-road, gravel bikes & bikepacking for over 25 years, even before the industry created some of these names. Prior to Bikerumor, Cory was a practicing Architect specializing in environmental sustainability, has designed bike shops & bike components, and worked as a bike shop mechanic.

Based in the Czech Republic for 15+ years, he is a technical mountain biker, adventurous gravel rider, and short & medium-haul bikepacker. Cory travels extensively across Europe riding bikes, meeting with key European product developers, industry experts & tastemakers for an in-depth review of what’s new, and what’s coming next.

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Anny Roo

5 years ago

If everyone bought plastic stuff for this minimal level of need we would kill the planet. Oh wait…

Dylan Sutton

5 years ago

Solving a problem that only exists if you’ve bought into their other ‘solutions’ like spray on lubes or cleaning products. Just look at that picture in the middle of the article where the “Dry chain cleaner” is spraying all over the place!

The only spray that gets used on my bike is water from a pressure washer, which does a pretty good job of even getting a chain and cassette clean. If water at high pressure isn’t enough, just use wipe on some cheap-as-chips automotive degreaser and let it sit a while first (biodegradable but it’s caustic, wear rubber gloves and protective glasses blah blah).

Nir Tiger

5 years ago

Reply to Dylan Sutton

Totally agree on the soap and water only but never out of a pressure washer

Dylan

5 years ago

Reply to Nir Tiger

I never would have bothered getting a pressure washer if I hadn’t ruptured my achilles, then slipped over on the moss on my own path while hobbling in a cam boot. Not sure what hurt worse, my backside or the week-old surgical wound.
There’s really no problem using a pressure washer on your bike, just don’t spray the jet directly in your bearings or suspension seals. The water loses its power very quickly as distance from the nozzle increases, so while an inch from the nozzle it will rip the mortar right out of stone work, 6 inches away it’s a jet of mist that won’t hurt if you aim it at your hand. FWIW I’m still running all original suspension bearings, BB and headset on my MTB after nearly 5 years of pressure washing.

Jason

5 years ago

Dylan, glad you have life figured out. The rest of us are just playing catch up.

Crash Bandicoot

5 years ago

Don’t really understand the need for this. I’ve been washing disc brake mountain bikes for ever with car wash soap,degreaser in certain areas, and a garden hose without any issue regarding contamination. You’d have to be a complete numpty to get chain lube etc in the caliper/disc area.

Carl

5 years ago

Some people are very particular about things on their bikes and this product is aimed at them. In reality, as long as spray lubes and degreasers are avoided this isn’t necessary at all. The braking system sees some pretty nasty stuff in normal operation and continues to work well. Short of dousing the pads in lubricant a bike’s braking system is extremely resilient.

Brad

5 years ago

Now if these things would reliably hang on when I have my bike on my hitch rack for the 4 hour drive to mom’s house, I’d consider them. Highway grit comes off stanchions easy, but man does it find a way into every nook and cranny when it’s riding behind the car at 120km/h in the rain for 4 hours.

Dan Lind

5 years ago

Tin foil. The cheapest and most effective way to cover/protect almost anything temporarily. Form fitting, fits in the tightest of spaces, simply to remove and discard. One roll will last a couple of seasons. I can buy 7 rolls/15 years of rotor protection for the cost of one pair of Muc-Off disc covers….but to each their own.

Michael Fasani

2 years ago

Reply to Dan Lind

This is a brilliant idea, thank you!

Matt

5 years ago

Take the wheels off.

Owen Arman

5 years ago

£22.50 PLUS £5 postage unless youre buying something else, expensive much?

slipperyPETE

5 years ago

HELLO KITTY SHOWER CAP. BEEN DOING IT FUR YEARZ. UGH

Pete Neff

4 years ago

My issue isn’t cleaning solutions getting on my rotors but all the road grim and dust from when the bike is on my hitch rack and by the time I get to my trial head the rotors are contaminated and get brake squeal, even if I clean the before I leave. Drives me nuts.